19 Best history books like American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History by Casey Michel

Cover of American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History by Casey Michel

American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

By: Casey Michel

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Miche…

If you liked the history plot in American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History by Casey Michel , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens by Nicholas Shaxson

1. Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

By: Nicholas Shaxson

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling ride inside the world of tax havens and corporate masterminds While the United States e… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • economics
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Cover of The Panama Papers by Bastian Obermayer, Frederik Obermaier

2. The Panama Papers

By: Bastian Obermayer , Frederik Obermaier

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering… read more

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3. The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

By: Tom Burgis

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015 The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth … read more

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Cover of Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything by Oliver Bullough

4. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

By: Oliver Bullough

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll

5. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox

6. The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

By: Margalit Fox

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who joined together to pull off one of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior

7. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

By: Sarah Kendzior

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more

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"The word “conspire"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

Cover of Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies by Gordon Corera

8. Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies

By: Gordon Corera

4.27

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The full, explosive story for the first time: Putin’s espionage campaign against the West, how i… read more

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  • history
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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis

9. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis

3.80

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more

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"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

Cover of Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg

10. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

By: Andy Greenberg

4.50

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more

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  • history
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Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

11. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back by Oliver Bullough

12. Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back

By: Oliver Bullough

4.20

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, som… read more

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Cover of Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo

13. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

By: Yepoka Yeebo

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more

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Cover of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

14. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

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Cover of American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History by Casey Michel

15. American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

By: Casey Michel

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Miche… read more

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16. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism by Joe Conason

17. The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism

By: Joe Conason

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise – and why Donald Tru… read more

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  • history
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Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

18. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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Cover of Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden by Bill O'Reilly

19. Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times and USA Today Nonfiction Bestseller! Authors of the acclaimed Killing books,… read more

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Cover of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Russ Buettner

20. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner

4.56

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more

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21. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

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