{"product_id":"we-the-corporations-how-american-businesses-won-their-civil-rights-paperback","title":"We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Winkler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a revelatory work praised as \"excellent and timely\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, front page), Adam Winkler, author of \u003cem\u003eGunfight\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncovering 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\" (\u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e), 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\" (\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eWe the Corporations\u003c\/em\u003e is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770476560672,"sku":"9781631495441","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1100e243219a690559d3cf687086fe8e.webp?v=1780372515","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/we-the-corporations-how-american-businesses-won-their-civil-rights-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}