{"product_id":"9781620972083","title":"Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA U.S. senator, leading the fight against money in politics, chronicles the long shadow corporate power has cast over our democracy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eCaptured\u003c\/i\u003e, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s \u003ci\u003eDark Money\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmericans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. \u003ci\u003eCaptured\u003c\/i\u003e reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who don’t “get right” by threatening million-dollar \"dark money\" election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary—even the Supreme Court—in \"business-friendly\" ways; to \"capture” the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate \"alternate reality\" on public health and safety issues like climate change. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaptured\u003c\/i\u003e shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134399267056,"sku":"9781620972083","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620972083_p0.jpg?v=1763855584","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620972083","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}