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Originally Posted by darryl
Your second point depends very much on your personal political views. I'm trying to think of an actual book requiring extensive research that itself brought a corrupt politician down, but the examples I consider all seem to have been written well after the event. In these days of wikileaks and the internet, politicians have arguable never been subject to greater scrutiny. Good investigative journalists in the MSM are nice, but we are hardly reliant on them, let alone on large publishers.
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Yeah, politicians tend to bring themselves down, not because of their favorite form of corruption, but because of their laughable attempts to cover it up or explain it away. From wide-stanced senators to congressmen who take, ahh very personal selfies and send them to children, it's NEVER what people write about them, so much as it is their own hubris.