Books: Phantom Democracy: Corporate Interests and Political Power in America / Empire Versus Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power
Just published: Carl E. Boggs (National University, Los Angeles), "Phantom Democracy: Corporate Interests and Political Power in America" (Palgrave Macmillan, August 2011).
Quote: "Boggs traces the historical evolution of American politics by focusing on the gradual triumph of corporate and military power over democratic institutions and practices ... in a society that ostensibly embraces democratic values. Such developments, Boggs argues, have deep origins in American history going back to the founding documents, ideological precepts of the Constitution, early oligarchic rule, slavery, the Indian wars, and westward colonial expansion."
The strange case of a seemingly "popular" non-fiction title that sells at the price of a scholarly monograph.
Even stranger, though, in January 2011 Routledge published an 84-page paperback by the same author, bearing the title, "Empire Versus Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power". If the two publishers' descriptions are anything to go by the latter appears to be an abridged (or concise) version of the above work's 300-odd pages: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415892018/
Just published: Carl E. Boggs (National University, Los Angeles), "Phantom Democracy: Corporate Interests and Political Power in America" (Palgrave Macmillan, August 2011).
Quote: "Boggs traces the historical evolution of American politics by focusing on the gradual triumph of corporate and military power over democratic institutions and practices ... in a society that ostensibly embraces democratic values. Such developments, Boggs argues, have deep origins in American history going back to the founding documents, ideological precepts of the Constitution, early oligarchic rule, slavery, the Indian wars, and westward colonial expansion."
The strange case of a seemingly "popular" non-fiction title that sells at the price of a scholarly monograph.
Even stranger, though, in January 2011 Routledge published an 84-page paperback by the same author, bearing the title, "Empire Versus Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power". If the two publishers' descriptions are anything to go by the latter appears to be an abridged (or concise) version of the above work's 300-odd pages: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415892018/
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