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Part I: A Mddle Class Requres Democracy
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Tere Is No “Free” Market . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Chapter 2 How We the People Create the Middle Class . . 41Chapter 3 Te Rise o the Corporatocracy . . . . . . . . . 59
Part II: Democracy Requres a Mddle Class
. . . . . . . . . . 71Chapter 4 Te Myth o the Greedy Founders. . . . . . . . 73Chapter 5 Tomas Paine against the Freeloaders . . . . . 81Chapter 6 axation without Representation . . . . . . . . 95Chapter 7 James Madison versus the Business o War . . 107Chapter 8 FDR and the Economic Royalists . . . . . . . 115
Part III: Goernng or We the People
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Concluson: Te Road to Vctory
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Aferword by Greg Palast
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Notes
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Index
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Acknowledgments
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About the Author
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