We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Name: We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Author: Adam Winkler
ISBN: 9780871403841

Adam Winkler

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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Adam Winkler

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We the Corporations was a National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the Boston Globe. In a revelatory work, Adam Winkler 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. 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 one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history. We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.

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