Selling Out

by Mark Green

Veteran fighter for campaign finance reform, New York City politician, and recent founder of the New Democracy Project, Green (law, New York U.) describes how big money is sabotaging US democracy, and how to stop it. The corporate abuse scandals in 2002, he says, were not an aberration, but a rare lifting of the veil on business-as-usual. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Charlie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This closely researched and highly informative book left me powerfully angry, but it did not provide any sense of purpose. Most of the solutions proposed by Green would require the beneficiaries of a broken system to regulate themselves because the actual voters have already been cut out of the loop. A point that he ably demonstrated in the earlier chapters. While we do have some hope of shaming politicians into some restraint, I think that the current state of our infotainment media precludes any sustained groundswell for reform efforts.

As a side note, while Green tended to tar Republican interests as the malefactors of this tail, many of his most egregious examples featured Democratic shenanigans.