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Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind [Hardcover]

Mallory Factor , Elizabeth Factor
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Book Description

August 21, 2012
SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free and fair elections, and even our American way of life. And, Mallory Factor reveals what's coming next: how unions are targeting millions of Americans--maybe even you--for forced unionization so that unions can collect billions more in forced dues and exert an even greater influence over American politics. A chilling expose, SHADOWBOSSES is also a call to citizen action against those who really hold power in America today.

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"Mallory Factor's SHADOWBOSSES is a must read for anyone in America who pays taxes!"

---Sean Hannity, Fox News

"...Mallory Factor blows the lid off Big Labor's racket and arms you with the whole truth about the ruthless left-wing fat cats who pull the Democratic Party's strings...Get the facts. Buy this book."

---Michelle Malkin, Fox News contributor and author of Culture of Corruption

"...Government union bosses have been siphoning off our tax dollars by the billions for years. Mallory Factor exposes them...with a hard-hitting, thoroughly documented, and enlightening exposé of these shadowbosses and their Big Labor empire."

---Rand Paul, United States Senator from Kentucky

"...SHADOWBOSSES is a must read for anyone wanting to save our nation."

---Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief, Forbes Media

"There's never been a government scandal like the one Mallory Factor uncovers in SHADOWBOSSES---it's a dark, secretive alliance between politicians and government employee unions to take down the American taxpayer..."

---Grover G. Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform

"...SHADOWBOSSES reveals what is really going on in...the corridors of power across America---it's is a must-read for every American who cares about the future of our nation."

---David A. Keene, president, National Rifle Association; chairman emeritus, American Conservative Union

"...The mainstream media is afraid to cover this story. You should be afraid not to read this book. Buy it now and give extra copies to your friends, family, neighbors, and countrymen. It is just that important."

---Richard Miniter, Forbes.com columnist, Bestselling author of Losing bin Laden and Shadow War

"I've been called the top confidence man of the last century, but the stuff I pulled is nothing in comparison to what the government employee unions have pulled on the taxpayers. In SHADOWBOSSES, find out about the greatest scam in American governmental history that is costing every taxpayer a fortune."

---Frank W. Abagnale, Author and Subject of Catch Me If You Can

"The greatest threat to limited government and individual liberty today is the threat posed by the huge government employee unions...In SHADOWBOSSES, Mallory Factor has written a compelling and alarming account of the growing power of these radical leviathans..."

---David Horowitz, author, founder of Freedom Center

"Mallory Factor's SHADOWBOSSES puts the torch to the political keg of dynamite beneath the Democratic Party. By exposing the government workers unions, Factor has ripped the lid off the greatest single scam in American political history...No more important book has ever been written for the American taxpayer."

---Ben Shapiro, Breitbart News Editor-At-Large, Bestselling Author of Primetime Propaganda

About the Author

Mallory Factor is the John C. West Professor of International Politics and American Government at The Citadel. He is a Forbes columnist, the Senior Editor of Money and Politics for The Street.com, a political commentator and a businessman. He is co-founder of The Monday Meeting, an influential group of conservative political leaders, journalists, donors, think tank heads, and grassroots leaders in New York City---the largest meeting of its type in America.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Center Street (August 21, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1455522740
  • ISBN-13: 978-1455522743
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (110 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mallory Factor is the author of the New York Times Bestseller SHADOWBOSSES, the shocking new exposé of government employee union power in America today. SHADOWBOSSES tells a story of intrigue, drama, and corruption and reads like an organized crime novel. But it is a true story of how unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process.

Mallory Factor is the John C. West Professor of International Politics and American Government at The Citadel.

Mallory is also the Senior Editor of Money and Politics for TheStreet.com. He has written widely on economic and financial issues for publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, and newspapers nationwide. He has also appeared on numerous networks and cable stations including Fox News and CNBC to discuss finance and politics.

Mallory is the co-founder and co-chair of The Monday Meeting, a nationally-recognized gathering of elected officials, journalists, business leaders and conservative authors in New York City, the largest meeting of its type in the country.

Mallory Factor's compelling and insightful book, SHADOWBOSSES, reveals how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free and fair elections, and even our American way of life.

SHADOWBOSSES is a call to citizen action against those who really hold power in America today. It is a page-turner and a game-changer.

Mallory is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as Vice-Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Terrorism Financing. He has frequently testified in front of the U.S. House and the Senate on terror financing, regulation of the financial services industry and other economic issues.

Previously, he served as chairman of the Free Enterprise Fund, a free market "do" tank advocating economic growth, lower taxes and limited government, and brought the Constitutional challenge to the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to the Supreme Court.

Mallory was a senior fellow at the House Republican Study Committee from 2007 to 2011, and he chaired the Economic Roundtable for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2009.

You can learn more about Mallory Factor and read his articles at www.malloryfactor.com.

Customer Reviews

I found the book to be a great read and quite informative as well. Oliver Harden  |  27 reviewers made a similar statement
I highly encourage everyone to read this book! Smart Tax Payer  |  13 reviewers made a similar statement
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86 of 99 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Read! August 15, 2012
Format:Hardcover
Shadowbosses is an extremely well-crafted, painstakingly researched expose about one of the major forces shaping today's political process: Government Employee Unions. If you have ever wondered just how labor unions work and what impact they have on government employees, politicians and the everyday taxpayer, you must pick up this book. Packed with eye-opening facts, thoughtful insights, drama and unmasking, Mallory Factor has delivered a page-turner that directly effects every citizen's life. As an independent, I found Shadowbosses to be relevant, fascinating and particularly timely as we seek to lift the veil and further understand the forces that are really at work behind the scenes. This one is worth your while!
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43 of 52 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A thorough analysis of a serious problem August 21, 2012
By Cole
Format:Hardcover
Factor's book is a comprehensive indictment of all-too-powerful public sector unions. He provides enlightening statistics, revealing anecdotes and an insider look at one of the greatest problems facing America today. Around the nation, state governments are insolvent while public sector unions demand ever larger pensions and benefits for the workers they represent. A must read for anyone who cares how their tax dollars are spent.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read! October 2, 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I had never heard of Mallory Factor before coming across this book. People said so many good things about it last month that I felt the need to read it myself. I wasn't disappointed, not in the least. In 2010, I read a work that compared the actions of Soviet Union era apparatchniks to those of the union leaders here in the United States, and Shadowbosses is a fine conceptual companion piece for that book. Indeed, its far more expansive and thorough.

The theme of the authors is that the union hierarchs (SEIU, NEA, UAW, AFL-CIO, etc) run leftist politicians today--not the other way around. They call the shots and drive the Democrats agenda. Never was this more evident than over the summer when the DNC turned to the unions to make up for the deficits they had in their funding: No unions, no convention. The unions made it happen. Factor wrote this book before that particular event, but hundreds of others are covered in these pages.

Factor illustrates that when politicians don't do what the union wants--as Blanche Lincoln didn't in 2010--the unions back someone else and that candidate loses in the Democratic Party primary...which is precisely what happened to Lincoln. The behaviors of private sector unions are not our collective business, and if they succeed in breaking an industry there is not much we can do about it. The public sector unions are another matter altogether. We, the taxpayers, pay them, and often we pay them far more than we make ourselves. It's a complete scandal.

There is no better statistic in this book than the one revealing that nearly 500,000 federal bureaucrats make over 100k a year in salary. That's outrageous. They're not public servants, but rather, public scammers. There's no reason to overpay them as they steal liberty from us, and any president who was serious about solving the budget crisis would lower the maximum federal wage to $74,000. This would allow all the lawyers and overlords we currently possess in the federocracy to "scratch buy" on a wage that's still far higher than most of us make.

Overall, this book is outstanding. It's erudite and an inspiration. We, the people, are the ones who should run the country...not the Shadowbosses. Let's put some light on them, and free ourselves in the process.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars Typical anti American, anti worker book
This is the typical Anti American propaganda thrown around by the rich fat cats in Corporate America that keep the CEO's making record profits and the workers losing money year... Read more
Published 15 days ago by F. Piccioli
5.0 out of 5 stars Shadowbosses-Shadow Government??
Another eye opening book on the corrupt government and the corrupt unions that run our government.
This states the facts that these thugs all need to go. Read more
Published 1 month ago by mimi
5.0 out of 5 stars Shadowbosses: Government UnionsControl America and Rob Taxpayers...
Want to retire at age 48 with a pension in excess of $170,000 per year? Read this book and learn how public employees are bleeding some localities into bankruptcy with unfunded... Read more
Published 1 month ago by oldbull
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
This book highlights exactly why the Public Unions have taken over our government and have caused economic catastrophe. Buy it.
Published 1 month ago by CJ
4.0 out of 5 stars I haven't finished the book yet
I liked the book. I haven't finished reading it yet, but I will. Then maybe I could give a better rating or lesser one. I have read enough to make me angry.
Published 1 month ago by Deborah O'Shield
4.0 out of 5 stars Informative although somewhat repetitive
I learned a lot about the axis of power between the public labor unions and the Democrat party from this book, although the author tended to repeat the main ideas too much.
Published 2 months ago by craig
5.0 out of 5 stars Should be required reading
I have known about the problems with public employee unions but this book really brings that into focus. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Norman Blomberg
5.0 out of 5 stars Union tenticles
A clear and comprehensive look at what labor unions have become. The atidibilitng dibilat effect on politics and our lives.
Published 2 months ago by D. D. Bendell
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book and a must read for all that really care and not scared to...
This book says it like it is and an easy read. It is hard to argue with the facts. I have felt this way for years as I had a Union painting company. Read more
Published 2 months ago by George Christopoulos
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
After you read this... you are going burn your union card and move to a right to work state...!! SEIU be damned..!!!!
Published 2 months ago by David Mark Dubbelde
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