Captured
Subtitle: the corporate infiltration of American democracy
By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse ; with Melanie Wachtell Stinnett
Contributors: Stinnett, Melanie Wachtell, author
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781620972076
Subjects: Corporations; Political activity; Democracy; Business and politics
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Constitution's blind spot; title: The growth of corporate power; title: Where we are now; title: What the corporate political machine wants : four short case studies; title: The Powell memo and the corporate strategy; title: Capture of the Court; title: Capture of elections : Citizens United; title: Capture of regulatory agencies; title: Capture of the civil jury; title: The denial machine; title: Climate change and the "flies of summer"; title: America's lamp in peril.