{"title":"Micah Sifry","description":"\u003cp\u003eMICAH L. SIFRY is a writer, editor, and organizer with nearly forty years of experience covering politics, technology, and international affairs, and the author or editor of ten books. His recent books include \u003cem\u003eIs That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day\u003c\/em\u003e, co-authored with Nancy Watzman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSifry spent thirteen years as an editor and writer at \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e and served as a senior analyst with Public Campaign from 1997 to 2005. He is co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, a senior adviser to the Sunlight Foundation, and a former co-founder and president of Civic Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he’s not writing, Sifry serves on the Consumer Reports board of directors, a position he has held since 2010. This civic engagement reflects the focus on accountability and public interest that runs throughout his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMicah lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMicah Sifry’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"is-that-a-politician-in-your-pocket","title":"Is That a Politician in Your Pocket: Washington on $2 Million a Day","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\"Get rich quick! Read this book and learn how to invest in politicians for fun and profit! Just don't leave this book where any regular voters can read it!\"--Arianna Huffington, author of\u003cem\u003e Pigs at the Trough\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery day corporations and other wealthy special interests pump another $2 million into the coffers of our elected officials in Washington and their party committees. For their money they get an estimated $160 billion a year in tax breaks, subsidies, and other sweet deals. That's $160 billion lifted from taxpayers' pockets, or about $1,500 per taxpayer per year! But that's not the worst of it. Their money also buys them the opportunity to shape public policy to suit their bottom lines. And the cost we pay for that is much dearer. Blending satirical bite with mountains of eye-opening research, this rollicking call to arms breaks the issue into manageable, kitchen-table topics and makes it accessible with graphs, tables, sidebars, quizzes, and fascinating factoids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sifry and Watzman lay it all out with no bark on it in this devastatingly straight-forward book, the overt corruption of our country through what we politely call the campaign finance system. Legalized bribery is the root of our political rot and few people know more about how to fix it and have done more to fix it than the good folks at Public Campaign.\"--Molly Ivins, author of \u003cem\u003eBushwhacked\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sifry and Watzman are two of the most astute observers of political influence in this country. Their important new book names names and cuts through the bull about the issues that affect our daily lives, in a wonderfully amusing but drop-dead accurate way!\"--Charles Lewis, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Buying of the President 2004\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/047167995X\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780471679950\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Micah Sifry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43212298715352,"sku":"9780471679950","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43212298748120,"sku":"9781630261191","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780470255360_FC_mockup_v2_1738789164_328b493c-18b0-413a-811f-1afd8a17d396.jpg?v=1790996962"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-micah-sifry.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}