Bøger af Sheldon Whitehouse

Sales Track: Captured has sold 8K copies across all editions, including over 5K hardcovers.National Recognition: Senator Whitehouse has raised the visibility of these issues considerably since he took over chairmanship of the Senate subcommittee on Courts and made penetrating presentations in the Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Comey Barrett confirmation hearings (the latter went viral on the internet).Court tie-in: Will publish October 22, 2022, to coincide with opening of Supreme Court.Promotion: Senator Whitehouse did events at Politics & Prose, the Center for American Progress, and the Roosevelt House in NYC, among other events for Captured. He was also the subject of a profile by Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker. He is eager to promote The Scheme.Building interest in the topic: Senator Whitehouse has been speaking and writing on this topic for well over a year now, including his presentations during the Kavanaugh and Barrett hearings.

In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayers Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. Captured reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who dont get right by threatening million-dollar "e;dark money"e; election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciaryeven the Supreme Courtin "e;business-friendly"e; ways; to "e;capture the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate "e;alternate reality"e; on public health and safety issues like climate change. Captured shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands.