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Captured: the corporate infiltration of American democracy

By SHELDON , Stinnett , Melanie Wachtell;Whitehouse

Book information

Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press;The New Press
ISBN
9781620972083, 9781620972076, 1620972077
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
867 kB (888012 bytes)
Pages
xviii, 261 pages ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Business and politics;Business and politics--Unite

Description

The Constitution's blind spot -- The growth of corporate power -- Where we are now -- What the corporate political machine wants: four short case studies -- The Powell memo and the corporate strategy -- Capture of the Court -- Capture of elections: Citizens United -- Capture of regulatory agencies -- Capture of the civil jury -- The denial machine -- Climate change and the "flies of summer" -- America's lamp in peril.;"In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer's Dark Money."--

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