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Author, historian and politics and socio-economic-pop culture specialist Tony Castro will be your guide in understanding power and wealth in America and how the super-rich control more than just the country’s financial markets and political structure — how they run and influence your lives in ways you would never imagine. 

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I’m Tony Castro. I’ve been writing for a long time for the Washington Post and Sports Illustrated and as a bestselling author of seven books, with two more coming in 2021. I’ve reported from abroad as a foreign correspondent and at home as a columnist and national political writer. Publishers Weekly has hailed my work as “brilliant… a valuable contribution to the understanding of our time,” and Tom Wolfe called my last book “an American literary stylistic masterpiece... Tony Castro paints Mickey Mantle with the pinstripe magic of Garcia Marquez phantasmagoria and realism..."

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TONY CASTRO is a Harvard and Baylor-educated historian, Napoleon Bonaparte scholar and the author of the landmark civil rights history "Chicano Power"