We the Corporations

How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Adam Winkler (University of California, Los Angeles)

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English

Liveright Publishing Corporation
19 March 2019

History; History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Constitutional & administrative law

In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won “equal rights,” and transformed the Constitution to serve big business.

Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision as the capstone of a centuries-old battle for corporate personhood. “Tackling a topic that ought to be at the heart of political debate” (Economist), Winkler surveys more than four hundred years of diverse cases—and the contributions of such legendary legal figures as Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—to reveal that “the history of corporate rights is replete with ironies” (Wall Street Journal). We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.

By: Adam Winkler (University of California Los Angeles)
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 377g
ISBN: 9781631495441
ISBN 10: 1631495445
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 19 March 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adam Winkler is a professor at UCLA School of Law, where he specializes in American constitutional law. His scholarship has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New Republic, Atlantic, Slate, and Scotusblog.