Table of Contents
Introduction: The Battle to Save Democracy 1
Part I Corporations Take Over 13
Chapter 1 The Deciding Moment? 14
Chapter 2 The Corporate Conquest of America 49
Part II From the Birth of American Democracy through the Birth of Corporate Personhood 55
Chapter 3 Banding Together for the Common Good 56
Chapter 4 The Boston Tea Party Revealed 63
Chapter 5 Jefferson versus the Corporate Aristocracy 84
Chapter 6 The Early Role of Corporations in America 94
Chapter 7 The People's Masters 116
Chapter 8 Corporations Go Global 130
Chapter 9 The Court Takes the Presidency 152
Chapter 10 Protecting Corporate Liars 162
Chapter 11 Corporate Control of Politics 170
Part III Unequal Consequences 187
Chapter 12 Unequal Uses for the Bill of Rights 188
Chapter 13 Unequal Regulation 193
Chapter 14 Unequal Protection from Risk 198
Chapter 15 Unequal Taxes 206
Chapter 16 Unequal Responsibility for Crime 217
Chapter 17 Unequal Privacy 222
Chapter 18 Unequal Citizenship and Access to the Commons 225
Chapter 19 Unequal Wealth 237
Chapter 20 Unequal Trade 249
Chapter 21 Unequal Media 260
Chapter 22 Unequal Influence 278
Part IV Restoring Personhood to People 285
Chapter 23 Capitalists and Americans Speak Out for Community 286
Chapter 24 End Corporate Personhood 290
Chapter 25 A New Entrepreneurial Boom 297
Chapter 26 A Democratic Marketplace 309
Chapter 27 Restoring Government of, by, and for the People 315
Acknowledgments 331
Notes 334
Art Credits 359
Index 360
About the Author 374