A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics, resulting in the eme
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Table of contents :
Preface
Chapter One: 1912
Chapter Two: Mellonism
Chapter Three: The Impeachment of the Old Order
Chapter Four: Populists Take Power
Chapter Five: Trustbusters Against Hitler
Chapter Six: A Democracy of Small Businesses
Chapter Seven: The New Deal Constitution
Chapter Eight: Corporatists Strike Back
Chapter Nine: The Free Market Study Project
Chapter Ten: The Rebirth of Wall Street
Chapter Eleven: Wriston Versus Patman
Chapter Twelve: Penn Central
Chapter Thirteen: The Collapse of the New Deal Consensus
Chapter Fourteen: Watergate Babies
Chapter Fifteen: The Liberal Crack-Up
Chapter Sixteen: The Reagan Revolution
Chapter Seventeen: The Morgans, the Mellons, and the Milkens
Chapter Eighteen: Tech Goliaths and Too Big to Fail
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Bibliography
Notes
Index