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"On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake"

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher

Published August 21, 2020 at 11:57 AM CDT

Our guest is the author and foreign affairs expert, Sarah Chayes, who has worked as the special assistant on corruption to Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She's also advised David McKiernan and Stanley McChrystal (commanders of the International Security Assistant Force) and has been a reporter for NPR. She joins us to discus her new book, "On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake." About this work, the author Nancy MacLean has noted: "Both right and left revile 'the swamp,' but Sarah Chayes is the first to provide [in this book] a compelling -- to say nothing of brave -- account of how sophisticated, self-dealing networks of every stripe are rigging the rules and poisoning our politics."

Rich Fisher

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.

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