Link , Link , [In the spirit of Progressive Era muckrakers, Michel, an investigative journalist and author of American Kleptocracy, reveals the shamelessness, venality, and moral turpitude of those who work to influence federal legislators and the public in order to advance antidemocratic foreign interests. These foreign agents include public relations, law, and consulting firms and former governmental officials. The author traces the origins of the problem to Ivy Lee, who, in the 1920s and ’30s, launched the public relations industry, and Paul Manafort, whose work in the 1980s spurred “a new age of unrepentant Americans willing to sell their services to dictators and autocrats abroad.”], Link , Link , [Throughout so many Trump scandals, one thing remains the same: He has no respect for the basic mechanisms of democracy.], Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , Link