TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stoller,Matt
TI  - Goliath
SN  - 9781501182891
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Democratic Party (U.S.)
KW  - History
KW  - Monopolies
KW  - United States
KW  - Industrial concentration
KW  - Populism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-478) and index; 1912 -- Mellonism -- The impeachment of the old order -- Populists take power -- Trustbusters against Hitler -- A democracy of small businesses -- The New Deal constitution -- Corporatists strike back -- The free market study project -- The rebirth of Wall Street -- Wriston versus Patman -- Penn central -- The collapse of the New Deal consensus -- Watergate babies -- The liberal crack-up -- The Reagan revolution -- The Morgans, the Mellons, and the Milkens -- Tech goliaths and too big to fail
N2  - "A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics, resulting in the emergence of populism and authoritarianism, the fall of the Democratic Party--while also providing the steps needed to create a new democracy"--; Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny. A concentration of power, whether in the hands of a military dictator or a JP Morgan, was understood as autocratic and dangerous to individual liberty and democracy. Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time since the New Deal. The outcome of the 2016 election shook our faith in democratic institutions, and brought to the fore dangerous forces that many modern Americans never even knew existed. Stoller illustrates how we arrived at this tenuous moment, and the steps we must take to create a new democracy. -- adapted from jacket
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