This important and timely volume on American politics at the dawn of the twenty-first century examines the groundbreaking Citizens United Supreme Court ruling granting certain personhood rights to corporations, and explores the history of efforts by corporate powers to influence and control the mechanisms of government, much to the detriment of representative democracy and America's founding principles. The work explores key issues in corporate influence, the role of money in electoral politics, and corporate America's role in the destruction of the working economy. The final section of the text provides a practical discussion of the steps that citizens can take to combat corporate influence in politics and restore democracy and representative government, including information on the growing momentum of the proposed Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, The People's Rights Amendment. Clements is the co-founder of Free Speech for People, a national, non-partisan campaign to overturn Citizen's United. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less