Suchergebnisse

Preface: The American dream -- The homewreckers : a cast of characters -- The salesman -- A squandered opportunity -- A run on the bank -- Life on Park Avenue -- The vultures circle -- A mortgage discovered -- Foreclosure machine -- ColFin AI-CA5 LLC -- Polo ponies and wine -- For infinity -- Son of a linen store owner -- Loading the boat -- Life on a lease -- A bungalow in Los Angeles -- Time to make a deal -- The community fights back -- The new debt bundles -- Too big to fail -- An early vulture -- Trump University -- Triumph of the homewreckers -- Epilogue: A path to shared prosperity.

The War Comes Home is the first book to systematically document the U.S. government's neglect of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aaron Glantz, who reported extensively from Iraq during the first three years of this war and has been reporting on the plight of veterans ever since, levels a devastating indictment against the Bush administration for its bald neglect of soldiers and its disingenuous reneging on their benefits. Glantz interviewed more than one hundred recent war veterans, and here he intersperses their haunting first-person accounts with investigations into specific concerns, such as the scandal at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. This timely book does more than provide us with a personal connection to those whose service has cost them so dearly. It compels us to confront how America treats its veterans and to consider what kind of nation deifies its soldiers and then casts them off as damaged goods