Captured The corporate infiltration of American democracy
Book - 2017
"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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- Published
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New York :
The New Press
2017.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- xxii, 257 pages ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-239) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781620972076
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Constitution's Blind Spot
- Chapter 2. The Growth of Corporate Power
- Chapter 3. Where We Are Now
- Chapter 4. What the Corporate Political Machine Wants: Four Short Case Studies
- Chapter 5. The Powell Memo and the Corporate Strategy
- Chapter 6. Capture of the Court
- Chapter 7. Capture of Elections: Citizens United
- Chapter 8. Capture of Regulatory Agencies
- Chapter 9. Capture of the Civil Jury
- Chapter 10. The Denial Machine
- Chapter 11. Climate Change and the "Flies of Summer"
- Chapter 12. America's Lamp in Peril
- Postscript
- Notes
- Index