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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
by Winkler, Adam | HC | VeryGood
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780871407122
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0871407124
ISBN-13
9780871407122
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234375572
Product Key Features
Book Title
We the Corporations : How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Corporate, General, Corporate & Business History
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
29.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-051893
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
This is a brilliant, beautifully written book on a topic affecting almost every area of law: how did corporations come to have rights under the Constitution? Professor Winkler carefully details this history from English law to the present, and the book is filled with new insights and information. Any future discussion of rights for corporations will be shaped by this wonderful book., Much of the value of Winkler's book lies in his elegant stitching together of 400 years of diverse cases, allowing us to feel the sweep and flow of history and the constantly shifting legal approaches to understanding this unusual entity -- Blackstone's 'artificial person.' Four hundred years is a lot of time, and Winkler does a wonderful job of finding illustrative details without drowning in them, and of giving each case enough attention to make it come alive...By nailing down the absurdities of the past, Winkler allows us to see how the future becomes more open., An eye-opening account of how corporations became 'persons' entitled to constitutional rights and used those rights to impede efforts to regulate them in the interests of real people., Winkler's deeply engaging legal history, authoritative but accessible to non-lawyers, takes readers inside courtrooms, judges' chambers and corporate offices... The book offers new takes on familiar stories...as well as fascinating insights from largely forgotten moments... [A] meticulous, educational and thoroughly enjoyable retelling of our nation's past., An incisive account of the unlikely rise of an idea that has nearly turned American politics upside down., Impressively thorough and wide-ranging. . . . Winkler employs an evocative, fast-paced storytelling style, making for an entertaining and enlightening book that will likely complicate the views of partisans on both sides of the issue., A chronicle of the steady, willful process by which corporations became people--until, that is, you try to sue them. . . . Maddening for those who care about matters constitutional and an important document in the ongoing struggle to undo Citizens United., A work that is both engrossing and surprising....As we await the Supreme Court's decision in the critical case of whether a business can decline to serve a customer based on its distaste for same-sex marriages, all citizens would do well to pick up a copy of We the Corporations to understand the full implications of what it decides., [A] timely, exciting book . . . . Constitutional law professor and legal commentator Winkler examines the history of the relationship between corporations and the Constitution, providing a field guide to the legal issues and an overview of a long-term corporate civil rights movement that employs techniques familiar from social justice movements. . . . Along the way, he presents a wide range of vividly drawn historical figures, bringing their philosophies, tactics, debates, and shenanigans to life while allowing readers to assess the ethics and implications of their work., 'Are corporations people?' That's the provocative question Winkler poses at the outset of his impressive, engaging new book. . . . [Winkler] begins in Colonial America and provides a forceful and highly readable account of what he convincingly describes as a 'long, and long overlooked, corporate rights movement.'
Dewey Decimal
346.73/066
Synopsis
Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearWe the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history., We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known "civil rights movements" in American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities, business corporations, too, have fought since the nation's earliest days to gain equal rights under the Constitution--and today have nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Exposing the historical origins of Citizens United and Hobby Lobby , Adam Winkler explains how those controversial Supreme Court decisions extending free speech and religious liberty to corporations were the capstone of a centuries-long struggle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business. Beginning his account in the colonial era, Winkler reveals the profound influence corporations had on the birth of democracy and on the shape of the Constitution itself. Once the Constitution was ratified, corporations quickly sought to gain the rights it guaranteed. The first Supreme Court case on the rights of corporations was decided in 1809, a half-century before the first comparable cases on the rights of African Americans or women. Ever since, corporations have waged a persistent and remarkably fruitful campaign to win an ever-greater share of individual rights. Although corporations never marched on Washington, they employed many of the same strategies of more familiar civil rights struggles: civil disobedience, test cases, and novel legal claims made in a purposeful effort to reshape the law. Indeed, corporations have often been unheralded innovators in constitutional law, and several of the individual rights Americans hold most dear were first secured in lawsuits brought by businesses. Winkler enlivens his narrative with a flair for storytelling and a colorful cast of characters: among others, Daniel Webster, America's greatest advocate, who argued some of the earliest corporate rights cases on behalf of his business clients; Roger Taney, the reviled Chief Justice, who surprisingly fought to limit protections for corporations--in part to protect slavery; and Roscoe Conkling, a renowned politician who deceived the Supreme Court in a brazen effort to win for corporations the rights added to the Constitution for the freed slaves. Alexander Hamilton, Teddy Roosevelt, Huey Long, Ralph Nader, Louis Brandeis, and even Thurgood Marshall all played starring roles in the story of the corporate rights movement. In this heated political age, nothing can be timelier than Winkler's tour de force , which shows how America's most powerful corporations won our most fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a weapon to impede the regulation of big business., National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Economist and The Boston Globe We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history., A PBS NewsHour / New York Times "Now Read This" Book Club Selection Finalist * National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist * National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist * California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist * Silver Gavel Award (American Bar Association) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Economist and The Boston Globe We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history.
LC Classification Number
KF1386.C58W56 2018
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