{"product_id":"captured-the-corporate-infiltration-of-american-democracy-9781620972076","title":"Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheldon Whitehouse\u003c\/b\u003e represents Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate. He has served as a federal and state prosecutor, business regulator, courtroom litigator, environmental advocate, and government reformer. Boston-based writer \u003cb\u003eMelanie Wachtell Stinnett\u003c\/b\u003e is a former Director of Policy \u0026amp; Communications for the Tobin Project.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50474371285266,"sku":"9781620972076","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b0de30da-843d-4e74-9813-40899d969891.jpg?v=1730218372","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/captured-the-corporate-infiltration-of-american-democracy-9781620972076","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}