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Title: Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy by Ted Nace ISBN: 1-57675-260-7 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Recommended!
Comment: This interesting book traces the history and development of corporations from the time of Queen Elizabeth I to the present day. Much of the book focuses on little-known episodes in the corporate chronicle - the cruel Jamestown settlement in Virginia, for example, or the British East India Company's depredations in India. About midway through, the book shifts from such tales to a close examination of Supreme Court justices who tilted the playing field in favor of corporate power. Breezily written and accessible, this book puts a lengthy and complicated history easily within reach of ordinary readers. Its bias is clear - the subtitle leaves no doubt that author Ted Nace is a foe of corporate power - and the closer to the present the story comes, the more accusatory the author's conclusions may seem. Nonetheless, We find this is a worthwhile read for those who seek background information on the dark side of the American corporate success story.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tracing the roots of this phenomenon
Comment: Gangs Of America: The Rise Of Corporate Power And The Disabling Of Democracy by Ted Nace is an expert and sharp drawn scrutiny of just how contemporary corporations have amassed more political and economic rights than ordinary citizens within America's legal system. Tracing the roots of this phenomenon, and warning of the dangers such preferential treatment could have upon American society as a whole if continued unchecked, Gangs Of America is an informed and informative analytical history of the origins and implications of a very real imbalance of political and economic power upon our judicial and legislative systems.
Rating: 5
Summary: Smart White Men
Comment: If the hijacking of the 2000 presidential election by Stupid White Men incensed you, then take heed of the Smart White Men who have dealt a thousand blows to democracy over the past century. Ted Nace's "Gangs of America" is an intense history of corporate America's deliberate and relentless effort to empower itself aided by congressmen and judges entrenched in a sea of vested interests.
In a Matrix-like prequel, Nace carefully chronologizes the efforts of corporations to gain freedoms and protections as "persons" at the very expense of the people the U.S. Constitution was designed to protect. Even the self-serving ACLU cannot see the "real slippery slope is the ever-increasing tendency to treat corporations as though they were human beings."
Nace's witty and engaging tale compels the reader to follow the roller-coaster ride of corporate dominance which begins by going down the murky path by which the courts came to treat corporations as "persons." As the author of "Be Careful Who You SLAPP" I especially enjoyed Nace's treatment of corporate Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs).
Nace points the reader to the success of this concerted corporate effort to dominate as measured by the public image of the CEO who is once seen as the dutiful bureaucrat and is now transformed into the swashbuckling dot-com "hero" in the likes of Bill Gates. But as the corporate juggernaut rolls forward we find this local boy does good is soon testifying at his company's anti-trust hearing, one of the most egregious examples of corporate abuse of power of the 20th century.
Are we doomed to an Orwellian future where a large unaccountable "modern" entity enjoys more rights and freedom than the citizens who work its factories and offices? Can the same legal system that allowed corporations to add "field to field, and power to power" now check its unfettered growth? Can we as citizens tap into our human propensity for creativity and utilize the restraints that will morph the corporations into welcomed tools of society? Or is our future to be trapped in "The Matrix" where corporations and machines now control our reality?
Nace's answer is practical and inspiring. Just as corporations have bit by bit turned the tables on us, we citizens can take back our liberties by chipping away at the same old block - the legal institutions that have empowered them. One beginning is for each State to simply enact charter revocation by which modern day corporations can be tamed with the threat of dissolution as they once were.
Nace's "Gangs of America" is an insightful view of the basis for the sense of invincible arrogance that fueled Enron, WorldCom and others yet to appear on the public radar. Thanks to Nace, we know the trajectory of corporate America. It's not too late to redirect the flight plan.
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Title: The Company : A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea by JOHN MICKLETHWAIT, ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE ISBN: 0679642498 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy by William Greider ISBN: 0684862190 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Corporation : The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan ISBN: 0743247442 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 10 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Sorrows of Empire : Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic [The American Empire Project ] by Chalmers Johnson ISBN: 0805070044 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber ISBN: 1585422762 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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