Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklinâ s Snuff Box to Citizens United

Teachout, Zephyr

ISBN 10: 0674659988 / ISBN 13: 9780674659988

Published by Harvard University Press, 2016

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Title: Corruption in America: From Benjamin ...

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: paperback

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history.

Review:

"This is a wonderful and important book. Zephyr Teachout shows what's wrong with how the Supreme Court thinks about democracy and political corruption, how we got to this terrible place, and that it wasn't always this way - and doesn't have to be. There's a lot of learning and original synthesis here, and also an unmistakable voice, which blends a lively intelligence with passion for democracy as a way of life." --Jedediah Purdy, author of A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom