Gangs of America : the rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy /
Ted Nace.
- 1st ed.
- San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler, c2003.
- x, 281 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-266) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- How did corporations get so much power? : in which the author reads a poll, feels provoked and befuddled, and organizes his investigation -- From street fights to empire : the British roots of the American corporation (1267-1773) -- ultimate reality show : the brutal history of the Virginia Company (1607-1624) -- Why the colonists feared corporations : in which the citizens of Boston demonstrate the use of the hatchet as an anti-monopoly device (1770-1773) -- and what they did about it : how the framers of the American system restrained corporate power (1787-1850) -- genius : the man who reinvented the corporation (1850-1880) -- Superpowers : the corporation acquires nine powerful attributes (1860-1900) -- judge : Stephen Field and the politics of personhood (1868-1885) -- The court reporter : who really decided the Supreme Court's most important corporate case? (1886) -- lavender-vested turkey gobbler : how a "majestic, super-eminent" lawyer deceived the Supreme Court (1883) -- Survival of the fittest : "people power" versus a social Darwinist agenda (1886-1937) -- revolt of the bosses : the new mobilization of corporate political power (1971-2002) -- Speech = money : using the First Amendment to block campaign finance reform -- Judicial yoga : the tangled logic of corporate rights -- Crime wave : the roots of the scandals of 2002 -- Global rule : how international trade agreements are creating new corporate rights -- Fighting back : a movement emerges to challenge corporate hegemony -- Intelligent, amoral, evolving : the hazards of persistent dynamic entities -- Supreme Court decisions -- Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author. 1. 2. 3. The 4. 5. ... 6. The 7. 8. The 9. 10. The 11. 12. The 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. appendix A. appendix B. The
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