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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. How did corporations get so much power? : in which the author reads a poll, feels provoked and befuddled, and organizes his investigation
2. From street fights to empire : the British roots of the American corporation (1267-1773)
3. The ultimate reality show : the brutal history of the Virginia Company (1607-1624)
4. Why the colonists feared corporations : in which the citizens of Boston demonstrate the use of the hatchet as an anti-monopoly device (1770-1773)
5. ... and what they did about it : how the framers of the American system restrained corporate power (1787-1850)
6. The genius : the man who reinvented the corporation (1850-1880)
7. Superpowers : the corporation acquires nine powerful attributes (1860-1900)
8. The judge : Stephen Field and the politics of personhood (1868-1885)
9. The court reporter : who really decided the Supreme Court's most important corporate case? (1886)
10. The lavender-vested turkey gobbler : how a "majestic, super-eminent" lawyer deceived the Supreme Court (1883)
11. Survival of the fittest : "people power" versus a social Darwinist agenda (1886-1937)
12. The revolt of the bosses : the new mobilization of corporate political power (1971-2002)
13. Speech = money : using the First Amendment to block campaign finance reform
14. Judicial yoga : the tangled logic of corporate rights
15. Crime wave : the roots of the scandals of 2002
16. Global rule : how international trade agreements are creating new corporate rights
17. Fighting back : a movement emerges to challenge corporate hegemony
18. Intelligent, amoral, evolving : the hazards of persistent dynamic entities
appendix A. Supreme Court decisions
appendix B. The Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
Notes
References
Index
About the author.
Introduction
1. How did corporations get so much power? : in which the author reads a poll, feels provoked and befuddled, and organizes his investigation
2. From street fights to empire : the British roots of the American corporation (1267-1773)
3. The ultimate reality show : the brutal history of the Virginia Company (1607-1624)
4. Why the colonists feared corporations : in which the citizens of Boston demonstrate the use of the hatchet as an anti-monopoly device (1770-1773)
5. ... and what they did about it : how the framers of the American system restrained corporate power (1787-1850)
6. The genius : the man who reinvented the corporation (1850-1880)
7. Superpowers : the corporation acquires nine powerful attributes (1860-1900)
8. The judge : Stephen Field and the politics of personhood (1868-1885)
9. The court reporter : who really decided the Supreme Court's most important corporate case? (1886)
10. The lavender-vested turkey gobbler : how a "majestic, super-eminent" lawyer deceived the Supreme Court (1883)
11. Survival of the fittest : "people power" versus a social Darwinist agenda (1886-1937)
12. The revolt of the bosses : the new mobilization of corporate political power (1971-2002)
13. Speech = money : using the First Amendment to block campaign finance reform
14. Judicial yoga : the tangled logic of corporate rights
15. Crime wave : the roots of the scandals of 2002
16. Global rule : how international trade agreements are creating new corporate rights
17. Fighting back : a movement emerges to challenge corporate hegemony
18. Intelligent, amoral, evolving : the hazards of persistent dynamic entities
appendix A. Supreme Court decisions
appendix B. The Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
Notes
References
Index
About the author.