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Selling Out Hardcover – October 1, 2002

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Veteran fighter for campaign finance reform, New York City politician, and recent founder of the New Democracy Project, Green (law, New York U.) describes how big money is sabotaging US democracy, and how to stop it. The corporate abuse scandals in 2002, he says, were not an aberration, but a rare lifting of the veil on business-as-usual. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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    352 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    William Morrow
  4. Publication date
    October 1, 2002
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 1.13 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0060523921
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0060523923
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Onetime New York mayoral candidate Green lashes out against the government's tradition of selling access to politicians to the highest bidder and pricing practically everyone-besides millionaires-out of the ability to participate in our democracy. Although it's easy to detect the scent of sour grapes in Green's screed (he lost the election to business information tycoon Bloomberg), dismissing his words for that reason alone would be foolish. Fortunately eschewing the pervasive idea that American democracy was once a virginal paradise unsullied by as base a thing as money, Green provides a quick but thorough overview of the history of money and influence in national politics (during the post-Civil War era, most legislators openly sold their votes). After showing how we got ourselves into this mess, Green paints a portrait of how exactly the millions of dollars sloshing around the corridors of power shades and corrupts the system. Green does not cover much new ground, but he admirably collects all the usual jeremiads about this subject into one propulsive narrative. Although a Democratic bias creeps in here and there, for the most part Green blames his own party as much as the Republicans, naming names in plenty of embarrassing instances.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Mark Green's first book on campaign finance, Who Runs Congress?, was a number one New York Times bestseller in 1972. After working with Ralph Nader for ten years in Washington, Green served for twelve years as New York City's consumer affairs commissioner and then as its first elected public advocate. In 2001, he was the Democratic nominee for the office of mayor of New York against Michael Bloomberg. Currently a distinguished visiting lecturer at the New York University School of Law, he recently founded the New Democracy Project, a national and urban affairs institute. Green and his family live in New York City.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow; First Edition (October 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060523921
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060523923
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.33 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.13 x 9 inches
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  • Frank S. Fang
    3.0 out of 5 stars "Selling out" is a good book...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2006
    This is a good book...an insider writes a great story, and really with good faith; the only problem is "certainty"; if the author can incoporate detail rules of elections with his stories and show how closely things are related, his argument can certainly sells better. Also, there are a lot of theories out there regarding campagn financing and public elections; a little theory can help sort out all those messy events...
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  • Margarine Hype
    4.0 out of 5 stars Does Your Vote Matter At All????
    Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2007
    This is a sobering book for anyone who thinks that their vote matters in our democracy. This book details how members of Congress are nothing more than pawns of big corporations and industry leaders. Not only does it expose how Congress is bought and sold, it also sheds light on how much time Congressional members spend begging for donations versus the time they should be spending dealing with the issues that they are put in place to solve.

    This book is disturbing, but it also illustrates how to solve the problem, and what some states have begun to do to solve this problem. Hopefully more people will realize that corporate money should not be running the country the way it is, and this book is a good place to begin with that lesson.
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  • William Hare
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Area of Vitally Needed Reform
    Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2002
    Mark Green has spent his entire adult life in consumer interest reform politics. He began by working for Ralph Nader and eventually became New York City's commissioner of consumer affairs. He became more intimately connected than ever to the dangers posed to democracy by the influence of big money when he ran as the Democratic Party's candidate in the last New York mayoral election against multimillionaire Michael Bloomberg. The amount of money spent on both sides was staggering, prompting Green to pick up his talented pen and write this tome dedicated to awakening citizens to the dangers of a democracy perilously close to drowning in a cesspool of excessive funds.
    Whereas America's founding fathers provided the nation's fledgling government with a system of checks and balances, in current times one can forget about the balances and concentrate fully on the checks. Checks and more checks are forthcoming from big interests, which translates into ultimate control, no matter how often this axiomatic truth is denied. As critics ask: If the strategy is not succeeding, why do the big money interests shower accelerating amounts on political campaigns?
    The cancer on our democracy is abundantly clear to those interested citizens watching election battles in the current 2002 mid-term campaign. Rather than stepping forward and debating the merits of the major issues facing the nation, an increasingly helpless and turned off citizenry is bombarded by simplistic campaign negative ads highlighting half truths and sometimes outright lies. Post election studies reveal that excessive negative advertising disgusts many voters, who then become so turned off by the process that they do not vote at all. This was symbolized in the 1988 presidential election when George Bush the Elder prevailed on a highly orchestrated campaign of negative advertising highlighted by Willie Horton and the Pledge of Allegiance. Less than half of all eligible voters bothered to go to the polls, an all-time high since such scientific studies began to measure voting tendencies.
    This cancer on the body politic has been a festering wound for some time. A few years ago in California an election campaign specialist with an imposing track record for success proclaimed bluntly that when a candidate hired his services it was time for him or her to take a vacation. He did not want the candidate to get in the way as he put his big money campaign into gear, highlighted by advertising displays of catchy symbols and pithy comments, which were drummed ad nauseum into the minds of voters through television and radio.
    Mark Green made a recent appearance on the Phil Donahue Show in which he made a dire prediction. If this cancer is not dissipated through corrective legislation very soon then we will reach the point where the only two types of candidates are independently wealthy moguls ready, willing and able to spend millions of their own dollars such as a Michael Bloomberg, or lackeys under the total control of the wealthy special interests bankrolling their campaign efforts.
    Mark Green's is an important voice which needs to be heard. The voice is tuned into the major area that will make or break democracy as we have known it. Will the days of idealistic but far from wealthy candidates be truly a thing of the past? Will Jeffersonian town hall democracy be something the smooth talking kingmakers will dismiss with sarcastic laughter as relics from a truly distant past?
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  • owookiee
    5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2002
    People recently have been lamenting the low voter turnout and general apathy of the american voter. I think Green is dead on when he suggests campaign financing is a big culprit. Politicians accept monetary donations from corporations and PACs that grossly shadow donations from individuals, leaving us feeling that our say or vote doesn't make a difference, and that all candidates are lousy; it's just a matter of which is more tolerable.
    Green lays it out in this well researched book. If you have any faith in the US government, it will be gone after reading this book. The "good guys" are few and far between - and it's more and more difficult for them to get elected to office to make a difference.
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  • John H
    5.0 out of 5 stars About Time...
    Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2002
    Everyone whines about campaign finance reform, it's about time someone talked about what we can actually DO. This is a great read, a super analysis of the issue, and a very well thought out description of what can be done about it.
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