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Author:

Nichols, John.

Title:

Dollarocracy : how the money-and-media election complex is destroying America / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney.

Publisher:

Nation Books,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xviii, 339 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Campaign funds--United States.
Elections--United States.
Mass media--United States--Forecasting.
Democracy--United States.

Other Authors:

McChesney, Robert Waterman, 1952-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The right to vote: beginning the new age of reform. This is not what democracy looks like -- The $10 billion election: what it looks like when billionaires start spending -- The architects of dollarocracy: Lewis Powell, John Roberts, and the robber baron court -- The bull market: political advertising -- Media corporations: where the bucks stop -- The rise and fall of professional journalism -- Journalism exits, stage right -- Digital politics: there is no such thing as "too much information" -- The right to vote: beginning the new age of reform.

ISBN:

1568587074 (hardcover)
9781568587073 (hardcover) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)744287748

LCCN:

2013009813

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

YWPD162 -- Tipton Public Library (Tipton)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)