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

by Mark Green

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.

Paperback

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.