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In a groundbreaking history as game-changing as Charles Beard’s An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, We the Corporations reveals how American business won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Like women and minorities, corporations have also had a civil rights movement of their own, and they now possess nearly all the same constitutional rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the roots of Citizens United (2010), Adam Winkler shows how that controversial decision was the capstone of a two-hundred-year struggle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business. Bringing to life the legendary justices and lawyers—Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Louis Brandeis, Thurgood Marshall, and others— involved in the dramatic yet often-overlooked Supreme Court cases that extended our most fundamental protections to corporations, Winkler’s tour de force exposes how the nation’s most powerful companies turned the Constitution into a bulwark against the regulation of big business.
