{"product_id":"coronavirus-criminals-and-pandemic-profiteers-accountability-for-those-who-caused-the-crisis-9781839763779","title":"Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis","description":"\u003cb\u003eA furious denunciation of America's coronavirus criminals\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHundreds of thousands of deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people, as revealed here by John Nichols. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn March 10, 2020, president Donald Trump told a nation worried about a novel coronavirus, \"We're prepared, and we're doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.\" It has since been estimated that had Trump simply taken the same steps as other G7 countries, 40 percent fewer Americans would have died. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd it was not just the president. His inner circle, including Mike Pence and Jared Kushner, downplayed the crisis and mishandled the response. Cabinet members such as Betsy DeVos and Mike Pompeo undermined public safety at home and abroad to advance their agendas. Senators Ron Johnson and Mitch McConnell, governors Kristi Noem and Andrew Cuomo, judges such as Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Rebecca Bradley all promulgated public policies that led to suffering and death. Meanwhile, profiteer Pfizer (and anti-government propagandists such as Grover Norquist) fed at the public trough, while the billionaire Jeff Bezos added pandemic profits to a grotesquely bloated fortune. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Nichols closes with a call for a version of the Pecora Commission, which took aim at what Franklin Delano Roosevelt called the \"speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, and profiteering\" that stoked the Depression. There must be accountability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839763779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"John Nichols","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41490632147125,"sku":"9781839763779","price":22.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6ed4160a-2ef6-44cf-a4fd-de8efae3a96e.jpg?v=1640921864","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/coronavirus-criminals-and-pandemic-profiteers-accountability-for-those-who-caused-the-crisis-9781839763779","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}