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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherWW Norton & Co
ISBN-139781631495441
eBay Product ID (ePID)2317593823
Product Key Features
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWe the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Publication Year2019
SubjectHistory, Business
TypeTextbook
AuthorAdam Winkler
Subject AreaConstitutional Law
Dimensions
Item Height208 mm
Item Weight377 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorAdam Winkler