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Alan Tooze is a professor of economic history at Columbia University and the author of numerous award-winning books, including The Wages of Destruction, a history of the Nazi economy, Deluge, which traces the fallout of the First World War, and Crashed, an autopsy of the Great Recession.

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Carol Leonnig is an investigative reporter at the Washington Post. The recipient of multiple Pulitzers, her work has covered everything from Russian interference in American elections to government surveillance of ordinary citizens. Leonnig is the author of Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service and is a regular on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.

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After the Fall (2021) takes a sobering look at the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism in places like Hungary, China, Russia, and the United States of America. It examines how the standing and influence of the US changed in the years following the Cold War, and how this has led to the current challenges facing democracy around the world.

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Ben Rhodes is a former advisor and speechwriter for President Barack Obama and current cohost of the popular podcast Pod Save the World. He is a contributor to MSNBC and NBC News, as well as the author of the best-selling memoir The World As It Is.

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American Kompromat (2021) tells the dark and unsettling tale of how the Russian KGB began cultivating Donald Trump as an asset –⁠ and then hit the jackpot when he became the president of the United States. Drawing connections between Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and a mysterious Catholic sect called Opus Dei, it explores the reasons why Trump repeatedly did Putin’s bidding –⁠ and who enabled him to do so.

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Craig Unger is a journalist who has contributed to Vanity Fair for 15 years and formerly served as editor in chief of Boston magazine. He is the author of several books, including the best sellers House of Bush, House of Saud and House of Trump, House of Putin.

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Morgan Housel is a partner at the Collaborative Fund and a financial journalist who has written for the Motley Fool and the Wall Street Journal. Based in Seattle, he has won multiple awards for his writing, including the New York Times Sidney Award and the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

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David Bach is a best-selling author and financial expert. He’s written nine New York Times bestsellers, including The Automatic Millionaire. He is a regularly featured contributor to a number of media outlets, including NBC, ABC, CNN and the Oprah Winfrey Show. As of December 2018, his investment advisory company AE Wealth Management holds over six billion dollars of assets.

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British historian Adam Tooze is a professor and the director of the European Institute at Columbia University, New York. His previous books include the Wolfson History Prize-winning The Wages of Destruction (2006), a study of Nazi Germany’s economic policies, and The Great Deluge (2014), an analysis of the Great War and the creation of a new international order.

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Edge of Chaos (2018) examines the key challenges that liberal democracies around the world are facing today. Aging populations, limited resources and increasing debt are all threats to these countries’ economic well-being – but so too are the “remedies” of short-term policies and protectionism. Author Dambisa Moyo examines that misguided agenda and presents a radical blueprint for economic growth in the twenty-first century.

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Dambisa Moyo is an internationally renowned economist and author whose career has included posts at the World Bank and Goldman Sachs. Her macroeconomic analyses have landed her on the New York Times best-selling books list four times. Her books include Dead Aid (2009), How the West Was Lost (2011) and Winner Take All (2012). In 2009, she was recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, listed in TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world and named as one of “20 remarkable visionaries” by Oprah Winfrey.

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