Captured : the corporate infiltration of American democracy / Senator Sheldon Whitehouse with Melanie Wachtell Stinnett.

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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.

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.

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