{"product_id":"9781620974766","title":"Captured","description":"Author: Sheldon Whitehouse\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781620974766\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New Press, The\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 27 Aug 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA U.S. senator, leading the fight against money in politics, chronicles the long shadow corporate power has cast over our democracy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCaptured\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eDark Money\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eAmericans 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. \u003ci\u003eCaptured\u003c\/i\u003e reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who don't \"get right\" by threatening million-dollar \"dark money\" election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary-even the Supreme Court-in \"business-friendly\" ways; to \"capture\" the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate \"alternate reality\" on public health and safety issues like climate change. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaptured\u003c\/i\u003e shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920664772766,"sku":"ING-9781620974766","price":37.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781620974766.jpg?v=1782827380","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781620974766","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}