GANGS OF AMERICA: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of America,. Ted Nace, 2003,2005,
Amazing how one word can change the whole meaning of the constitution...
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INTRODUCTION (sample chapters in HTML format)
In which the author reads a poll, feels provoked and befuddled, and organizes his investigation
The British roots of the American corporation (1267-1773)
The brutal history of the Virginia Company (1607-1624)
In which the citizens of Boston demonstrate the use of the hatchet as an anti-monopoly device (1607-1773)
How the framers of the American political system restrained corporate power (1787–1850)
The man who reinvented the corporation (1850–1880)
The corporation acquires nine powerful attributes (1860-1900)
eight: The Judge
Stephen Field and the politics of personhood (18681885)
nine: The Court Reporter
Who really decided the Supreme Court’s most important corporate case?(1886)
ten: The Lavender-Vested Turkey Gobbler
How a “majestic, super-eminent” lawyer deceived
the Supreme Court (1883)
eleven: Survival of the Fittest
How the Supreme Court used the Fourteenth
Amendment to advance a Social Darwinist agenda, and how “people power”
toppled that agenda
(1886–1937)
twelve: the Revolt of the Bosses
The new mobilization of corporate political power (1971-2003)
thirteen: Speech=Money
Using the First Amendment to block campaign
finance reform
fourteen: Judicial Yoga
The tangled logic of corporate rights
fifteen: Crime Wave
The roots of the scandals of 2002
sixteen: Global Rule
How international trade agreements are creating new corporate rights
seventeen: Fighting Back
A movement emerges to challenge corporate
hegemony
eighteen: Intelligent, Amoral, Evolving
The hazards of persistent, dynamic entities
NOTES
SOURCES
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