Sarah Chayes’s unique trajectory has led from reporting on Europe, North Africa, and the fall of the Taliban in 2001 as National Public Radio’s Paris correspondent to a decade on the ground in Afghanistan, including service to two commanders of the international forces there and to former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen. Internationally renowned for her innovative thinking on corruption and its implications, Chayes has probed its workings on five continents—and most recently the United States. She is the author of The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban; Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, a 2016 LA Times Book Prize winner; and On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake. She lives in Paw Paw, West Virginia.
"Both right and left revile 'the swamp,' but Sarah Chayes is the
first to provide a compelling--to say nothing of brave--account of
how sophisticated self-dealing networks of every stripe are rigging
the rules and poisoning our politics. If you want to save America,
this might just be the most important book to read
now." —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains
"I can't imagine a more important book for our
time." —Sebastian Junger
"Required reading." —Tom Friedman
"Compelling, fascinating . . . a call to action."—The Huffington
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