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URL:https://www.literaturseiten-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/democracy-book
 -group-foreign-agents-how-american-lobbyists-and-lawmakers-threaten-democr
 acy-around-the-world/
SUMMARY:Democracy Book Group: "Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and L
 awmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World" by Casey Michel
DESCRIPTION:Join this in-person-book-group to discuss Casey Michel's book
  Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy 
 Around the World. Also\, don't miss the event How Foreign Dictators Interf
 ere in Democratic Countries where Michel will come to Amerikahaus on Tuesd
 ay\, February 24\, 2026\, at 7 p.m.\n\nFor years\, one group of Americans 
 has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the 
 planet. In the process\, they've not only entrenched dictatorships and spr
 ead kleptocratic networks\, but they've secretly guided U.S. policy withou
 t the rest of America even being aware. And now\, some of them have begun 
 turning their sights on American democracy itself.\n\nThese Americans are 
 known as foreign lobbyists\, and many of them spent years ushering dictato
 rships directly into the halls of Washington\, all while laundering the re
 putations of the most heinous\, repressive regimes in the process. These f
 oreign lobbyists include figures like Ivy Lee\, the inventor of the public
  relations industry―a man who whitewashed Mussolini\, opened doors to th
 e Soviets\, and advised the Nazis on how to sway American audiences. They 
 include people like Paul Manafort\, who invented lobbying as we know it―
 and who then took his talents to autocrats from Ukraine to the Philippines
 \, and then back to the White House. And they now include an increasing nu
 mber of Americans elsewhere: in law firms and consultancies\, among PR spe
 cialists and former lawmakers\, and even within think tanks and universiti
 es.\n\nIn Foreign Agents\, Casey Michel shines a light on these foreign l
 obbyists as some of them―after decades of installing dictators and corru
 pting American policy―embark on their next mission: to end America’s d
 emocratic experiment\, once and for all.\n\nRegistration: Admission is fre
 e. No registration is necessary.\n\nOrganizers: A part of the Munich Dial
 ogues on Democracy Speakers Series\, a cooperation between The Yale Club
  of Germany e.V. (Munich Chapter) and the Amerikahaus - Bavarian Center 
 for Transatlantic Relations
CATEGORIES:Gespräch / Diskussion,Lesekreis
LOCATION:Amerikahaus\, Karolinenplatz 3\, München\, 80333\, Deutschland
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