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The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism

by Dean Starkman

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Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Dracula
by Bram Stoker