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Goliath / Matt Stoller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xviii, 588 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781501182891
  • 1501182897
  • 9781501183089
  • 1501183087
Other title:
  • Jacket title: Goliath : the 100-year war between monopoly power and democracy
  • Half title on page facing title page: 100-year war between monopoly power and democracy
  • One hundred year war between monopoly power and democracy
  • Hundred year war between monopoly power and democracy
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: 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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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 338.8209 S875 Available 33111009544327
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Every thinking American must read" ( The Washington Book Review ) this startling and "insightful" ( The New York Times ) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.

Going back to our country's founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial age by Louis Brandeis. A concentration of power--whether by government or banks--was understood as autocratic and dangerous to individual liberty and democracy. In the 1930s, people observed that the Great Depression was caused by financial concentration in the hands of a few whose misuse of their power induced a financial collapse. They drew on this tradition to craft the New Deal.

In Goliath , Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time in eighty years, as the outcome of the 2016 election shook our faith in democratic institutions. It has brought to the fore dangerous forces that many modern Americans never even knew existed. Today's bitter recriminations and panic represent more than just fear of the future, they reflect a basic confusion about what is happening and the historical backstory that brought us to this moment.

The true effects of populism, a shrinking middle class, and concentrated financial wealth are only just beginning to manifest themselves under the current administrations. The lessons of Stoller's study will only grow more relevant as time passes. "An engaging call to arms," ( Kirkus Reviews ) Stoller illustrates here in rich detail how we arrived at this tenuous moment, and the steps we must take to create a new democracy.

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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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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