Sheldon Whitehouse

Good introductory overview of how politics and the mechanisms of the state have been captured by corporate and plutocratic interests. However, I was a little disappointed at not getting more of the Senator's own experiences with this. I have not seen much of the progressive senator with the presidential surname, so I would have forgiven him putting himself out there a bit more in his book. In several places I needed more detail than was given, so I would recommend after reading this to go to some deeper treatments of particular areas: "We The Corporations" for how the Supreme Court has awarded corporations expansive rights; "Dark Money" on how conservative billionaires fund campaigns and influence politics; and the documentary "Hot Coffee" on efforts though the "tort reform" movement to reduce the power of the civil courts to hold corporations accountable.… (meer)

It's okay, and it was nice to see so many interesting quotes, but I don't know that I would have been happy to have paid for this book. Amazon provided it as a book I could "borrow" (for whatever that might mean), and with no actual limit on the borrowing, I nearly forgot that I didn't own it. Still, if I'd given the current ten bucks for it, I'd have been more than a little annoyed.

It's okay. If you haven't seen most of the things he quotes, it's probably better than okay. I'm about to delete if from my Kindle, and "return" it (for whatever that might mean).… (meer)