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How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America
Nation Books
June 2013
On Sale: June 11, 2013
369 pages
ISBN: 1568587074
EAN: 9781568587073
Kindle: B00B3M3XOO
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Non-Fiction Political
Fresh from the first $10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy. Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic Robert W. McChesney explain how US elections are becoming controlled, predictable enterprises that are managed by a new class of consultants who wield millions of dollars and define our politics as never before. As the money gets biggerβespecially after the Citizens United rulingβand journalism, a core check and balance on the government, declines, American citizens are in danger of becoming less informed and more open to manipulation. With groundbreaking behind-the-scenes reporting and staggering new research on βthe money power,β Dollarocracy shows that this new power does not just endanger electoral politics; it is a challenge to the DNA of American democracy itself.
 Media BuzzTavis Smiley - October 25, 2013
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