The People's Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy

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Summary: A Crucial Read
Review: As a survivor of hidden government experiments and an investigator of what is hidden behind the scenes, I have to recommend this book to everyone serious about discovering and acknowledging truth. Kudos to the authors for a brave stand. When the populace is willing to see whether or not the emperor has clothes, books like this will be a formidable tool in rebuilding a truly free democracy.

Dixie Waldrip, author, Hide and Go Seek; Searching for Me

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Summary: This Book Restores Hope for a True Democracy
Review: This book tells the truth about the unseemly influence corporations have over our everyday lives. But it also provides a road map to reclaim that power. It reminds us that there is such a thing as a social contract and corporations are grossly out of compliance with that contract.

It's empowering to read an analysis that provides a well documented critique but also offers vision and hope. Whether you're just buying a car or paying your utility bills you need to read this book. It suggests hope for democracy and not the hypocritical George Bush brand but an economic democracy where people can regain control over the largest part of their lives, their economic lives.

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Summary: Corporuption Explained
Review: To one extent or another, regardless of your politics, everyone shares the dread sense that too many large corporations are out of control these days - stifling competition, buying up our politicians, and driving down the quality of life for their employees, consumers and the communities in which they are based. In this book Drutman and Cray do a fine job of exploring contemporary indicators of corporate excess. Then they go an extra lap and explain how the history of the corporation in America holds the key to understanding what can be done now. The book reminds me of some of William Greider's work, such as Who Will Tell The People. More than the usual polemic against big business, The People's Business makes clear that with the tools available to us in this democracy, we can restore the corporation to its proper place in service to our society. This idea is as old as the founding fathers, and as fresh as pages of this great new book.