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We the Corporations
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights | Adam Winkler
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In a revelatory work praised as "excellent and timely" (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won "equal rights," and transformed the Constitution to serve big business. Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision as the capstone of a centuries-old battle for corporate personhood. "Tackling a topic that ought to be at the heart of political debate" (Economist), Winkler surveys more than four hundred years of diverse cases--and the contributions of such legendary legal figures as Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall--to reveal that "the history of corporate rights is replete with ironies" (Wall Street Journal). We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.
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With the Citizens United decision (which is even hinkier than I realized) as a touchstone, We The Corporations looks at the gradual increase in rights given to companies in the US by the Supreme Court (as said rights are not explicitly given by the Constitution). Interesting and informative, though admittedly a bit dry in places. The audio reader does a great job of keeping this one interesting.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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This starts much further back then I would have imagined even referencing ancient Rome multiple times
With some heavy leagalize, but easily followed - the result of actions laid out. The author does well at leaving himself out of the story. leading to straight telling of the story w/o much emotion. Giving an unbiased view at times I found myself agreeing to some of the rights corp had won making the book and the history & any argument much richer

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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I have gotten out of this habit but going to be better at it to push myself to read more.
#weeklyforcast going for one each of new, old, not yet released, and audio
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (new release)
My #bookspin book Turtle Diary (old)
Anxious People (not yet released)
We the Corporations (audio)

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Kobe83

Nyt notable book 2018

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keithmalek
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Repetitive, long-winded, and boring.

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cykitan
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oh god this is depressing

Louise And that's just in chapter two! Sounds like you'd better fasten your seatbelt! 😳 6y
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