Selling Out: How Big Corporate Money Buys Elections, Rams Through Legislation, and Betrays Our Democracy

Mark Green

Harper Collins, Feb 3, 2004 - Business & Economics - 352 pages

With CEOs and corporations under fire for years of outrageous deception and fraud, the time has come for Mark Green's groundbreaking book, Selling Out. A political watchdog and longtime crusader for better government, Green exposes the truth about the poisonous role money has come to play in our political culture. How are so many corporations able to buy political protection? Why do legislators pay more attention to contributors than to constituents? Filled with bold and practical solutions that are already working to return power to the American people, Selling Out is sure to inflame anyone who's stunned by the recent corporate scandals -- or who's curious about how so many have gotten away with so much for so long.

About the author

Mark Green, New York Times bestselling author of Who Runs Congress?, worked with Ralph Nader for ten years in Washington, D.C., before serving for twelve years as New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner and Public Advocate. A television commentator, public interest lawyer, and the former Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, Green is also the founder and president of the New Democracy Project, a national and urban affairs institute. He has been a lecturer at the New York University School of Law since 2002, and lives with his family in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Selling Out: How Big Corporate Money Buys Elections, Rams Through Legislation, and Betrays Our Democracy
• Author: Mark Green
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2004
• ISBN: 0060735821, 9780060735821
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Government & Business; Political Science / American Government / General; Political Science / General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General; Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections; Political Science / Political Process / General; Political Science / World / General