BOOKS MONEY IN POLITICS

Ashwood, Loka, For-Profit Democracy: Why the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America (Yale Agrarian Studies Series), Yale University Press; Illustrated edition, 2018

 

Carnes, Nicholas, The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office--and What We Can Do about It (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, 16), Princeton University Press, 2020

 

Clements, Jeffrey D., Bill Moyers (Foreword), Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations, Berrett-Koehler Publishers; Second Edition, 2014

 

Drutman, Lee, The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate (Studies in Postwar American Political Development), Oxford University Press, 2015

 

Ferguson, Charles H., Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America, Crown Business; 4/21/13 edition, 2013

 

Fishkin, Joseph, William E. Forbath, The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy, Harvard University Press, 2022

 

Hacker, Jacob S. Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, Simon & Schuster, 2011

 

Hartmann, Thom, The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series), Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2021

 

Hasen, Richard L., Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections, Yale University Press, 2016

 

Katz, Alyssa, The Influence Machine: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life, Spiegel & Grau, 2015  

 

Leonard, Christopher, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, Simon & Schuster, 2019

 

Lessig, Lawrence, America, Compromised (Berlin Family Lectures), University of Chicago Press, 2018 

 

Lessig, Lawrence, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It, Twelve; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Lewis, Charles, Alejandro Benes, The Buying of the President, Avon Books, 1996

 

Mayer, Jane, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Doubleday, 2016

 

Michaels, David, The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Mutch, Robert E., Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform 1st edition, Oxford University Press, 2014

 

Mutch, Robert E., Campaign Finance: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Oxford University Press, 2016

 

Nace, Ted, Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, Berrett Koehler, 2005

 

Phillips, Kevin P., Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, Broadway Books, 2003

 

Potter, Wendell, Nick Penniman, Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It, Bloomsbury Press, 2017

 

Reed, Adolph Jr., Walter Benn Michaels, No Politics but Class Politics, Eris, 2023

 

Rose-Ackerman, Susan, Corruption and Government 2ed: Causes, Consequences, And Reform, Cambridge University Press; 2 Edition, 2016

 

Schulman, Daniel, Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty, Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Waterhouse, Benjamin C., Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America), Princeton University Press, 2015

Whitehouse, Sheldon, Melanie Wachtell Stinnett, Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy, The New Press, 2017

 

Winkler, Adam, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, Liveright, 2018