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Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy Hardcover – July 1, 2003

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Nace nurtured Peachpit Press from a home-based operation, writing and publishing computer guides, to a business worthy of acquisition by the Pearson conglomerate. The experience inspired him to study the nature of corporate power. He offers a breezy summary of the legal history surrounding the formation of corporations and the parameters of their power, putting an anti-corporate spin on the American Revolution and discussing how the early republic limited corporate power by enabling state governments to issue restrictive charters. But the tight controls didn't remain in place: after the Supreme Court's decision in an 1886 case involving the Santa Clara Railroad, corporations were assumed to be the legal equivalent of people entitled to equal protection under the law and, in subsequent cases, were guaranteed a growing range of constitutional rights. One of Nace's central arguments is that Santa Clara doesn't mean what everybody thinks it means: the original decision doesn't take any stand on whether corporations have constitutional rights; the question comes up in a subsequent version of the decision, but the Chief Justice acts as if it had been resolved in earlier decisions. Although Nace blames the Court's reporter for the shift in emphasis, he illustrates how another justice, Stephen Field, was already buttressing politicians' and financial titans' efforts to eliminate all restraints on corporate power, making their legal supremacy inevitable. Later chapters examine how corporations continue to wield their influence to prevent the government from regulating them too closely, but while the book offers plenty of details about the problem's existence and deftly introduces it, it offers little more than generalities about where to go from there.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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“An important and highly accessible book about the legal and political environments that shaped the modern corporation. Highly recommended.”
—Choice

“A joy to read . . . clear, straight-forward, and very accessible . . . one of those books that can awaken people’s consciousness.”
—Corporate Reform Weekly

“Entertaining and sometimes arresting . . . the book is a lively read, and Nace is an interesting companion.”
—New Leader

“Gangs of America is a brilliant page-turner revealing how powerful, greedy corporations wage institutional terrorism. Reading it is the first step to saving our communities, our democracy, and our planet’s environment.”
—John Stauber, coauthor of Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!

“A beautifully documented and readable history.”
—Ben H. Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly

“The essential guide to the history of the American corporation. Nace explodes the myth of inevitability surrounding the corporate takeover of our lives.”
—Maria Elena Martinez, executive director, CorpWatch
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berrett-Koehler Publishers; First Edition (July 1, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1576752607
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1576752609
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.48 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.34 x 1.06 x 9.62 inches
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Ted Nace grew up in California and North Dakota. He earned a bachelor's degree at Stanford University and a master's degree at UC Berkeley. He worked as a consultant to the Environmental Defense Fund and as staff director of the Dakota Resource Council. Returning to the Bay Area, he worked as an editor at PC World magazine and as a columnist for Publish! and Computer Currents magazines. Together with Michael Gardner, he founded the computer book publishing company Peachpit Press in 1985 and served as publisher until 1996, when he and the other owners sold Peachpit to Pearson Plc. In 2007 he founded CoalSwarm, a collaborative information clearinghouse on U.S. and international coal mines, plants, companies, politics, impacts, and alternatives. In addition to several computer how-to books, Nace is the author of Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy (Berrett-Koehler, 2003, 2005) and Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal (CoalSwarm, 2010). He can be reached at ted@tednace.com.

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