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Tables of Contents for Gangs of America
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
IX
INTRODUCTION
1
10
ONE How Did Corporations Get So Much Power?
11
In which the author reads a poll, feels provoked and befuddled, and organizes his investigation
TWO From Street Fights to Empire
9
21
The British roots of the American corporation (1267-1773)
THREE The Ultimate Reality Show
30
8
The brutal history of the Virginia Company (1607-1624)
FOUR Why the Colonists Feared Corporations
38
8
In which the citizens of Boston demonstrate the use of the hatchet as an anti-monopoly device (1770-1773)
FIVE And What They Did About It
46
10
How the framers of the American system restrained corporate power (1787-1850)
SIX The Genius
56
14
The man who reinvented the corporation (1850-1880)
SEVEN Superpowers
70
17
The corporation acquires nine powerful attributes (860-900)
EIGHT The Judge
87
15
Stephen Field and the politics of personhood (868-1885)
NINE The Court Reporter
102
8
Who really decided the Supreme Court's most important corporate case? (886)
TEN The Lavender-Vested Turkey Gobbler
110
8
How a "majestic, super-eminent" lawyer deceived the Supreme Court (1883)
ELEVEN Survival of the Fittest
118
19
"People power" versus a social Darwinist agenda (886-937)
TWELVE The Revolt of the Bosses
137
15
The new mobilization of corporate political power (1971-2002)
THIRTEEN Speech = Money
152
9
Using the First Amendment to block campaign finance reform
FOURTEEN Judicial Yoga
161
17
The tangled logic of corporate rights
FIFTEEN Crime Wave
178
9
The roots of the scandals of 2002
SIXTEEN Global Rule
187
10
How international trade agreements are creating new corporate rights
SEVENTEEN Fighting Back
197
22
A movement emerges to challenge corporate hegemony
EIGHTEEN Intelligent, Amoral, Evolving
219
11
The hazards of persistent dynamic entities
APPENDIX A Supreme Court Decisions
230
8
APPENDIX B The Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
238
2
NOTES
240
22
REFERENCES
262
5
INDEX
267
15
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
282