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Goliath : the 100-year war between monopoly power and democracy / Matt Stoller.

By: Stoller, Matt [author.].
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, 2019Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.Description: xviii, 588 p.ISBN: 9781501182891; 9781501183089.Subject(s): Monopolies -- United States -- History | Industrial concentration -- United States -- History | Populism -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 338.8/20973
Contents:
1912 -- Mellonism -- The impeachment of the old order -- Populists take power -- Trustbusters against Hitler -- A democracy of small businesses -- The New Deal constitution -- Egghead liberals and the return of the corporatists -- 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"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-564) 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 -- Egghead liberals and the return of the corporatists -- 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"--

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