TY - BOOK AU - Whitehouse,Sheldon AU - Wachtell Stinnett,Melanie TI - Captured: the corporate infiltration of American democracy SN - 9781620972083 AV - JK467 .W54 2017eb U1 - 322/.30973 23 PY - 2017///] CY - New York PB - The New Press KW - Business and politics KW - United States KW - Corporations KW - Political activity KW - Democracy KW - Affaires et politique KW - États-Unis KW - Sociétés KW - Activité politique KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Process KW - Campaigns & Elections KW - bisacsh KW - Political Advocacy KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Machine generated contents note; ch. One; Constitution's Blind Spot --; ch. Two; Growth of Corporate Power --; ch. Three; Where We Are Now --; ch. Four; What the Corporate Political Machine Wants: Four Short Case Studies --; ch. Five; Powell Memo and the Corporate Strategy --; ch. Six; Capture of the Court --; ch. Seven; Capture of Elections: Citizens United --; ch. Eight; Capture of Regulatory Agencies --; ch. Nine; Capture of the Civil Jury --; ch. Ten; Denial Machine --; ch. Eleven; Climate Change and the "Flies of Summer" --; ch. Twelve; America's Lamp in Peril N2 - 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. Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. Captured reveals an original oversight by the UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1701523 ER -