Summary: The 80's were a time when everybody was making the big bucks. When F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company, no one is prepared for what hits the fan. What follows is a down-to-the-wire battle to see who is really king of the Wall Street jungle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAR

Bogle, John C.

Contents: What went wrong in corporate America? : a pathological mutation -- Why did corporate America go wrong? : "somebody's gotta keep an eye on these geniuses" -- How to return corporate America to its owners : "owners of the world, unite!" -- What went wrong in investment America? : King Kong, or Mighty Joe Young? -- Why did investment America go wrong? : the momentary precision of stock prices...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.122 BOG

Hoffman, Liz

Summary: "A kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy's winners and losers-from a leading Wall Street Journal reporter. The world's most powerful CEOs never saw it coming. In 2018, after a decade-long bull market, the CEO of American Airlines declared, "I don't think we're ever going to lose money again." The U.S. entered...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 HOF

Summary: The Corporation charts the spectacular rise of the corporation as a dramatic, pervasive presence in our everyday lives. With a deft mix of humor, visual panache and seriousness, this documentary is a timely, entertaining critique of global conglomerates.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COR

Clements, Jeffrey D.

Contents: Introduction: what's at stake -- American democracy works, and corporations fight back -- Corporations are not people; and they make lousy parents -- If corporations are not people, what are they? -- Corporations don't vote; they don't have to -- Did corporate power destroy the working American economy? -- Corporations can't love -- Restoring democracy and republican government.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.3 CLE

Wartzman, Rick

Summary: In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola--he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 WAR

Lemann, Nicholas

Summary: "A history of three economic and social thinkers and their impact on the American economy"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 LEM

Howe, Fisher

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass Publishers 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.15224 Howe

Carlisle, Liz.

Summary: The story of the Lentil Underground begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in America’s Great Plains: the Oien family farm. Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness told small farmers like the Oiens to “get big or get out.” But twenty-seven-year-old David Oien decided to take a stand, becoming the first in his conservative Montana county to plant a radically different crop: organic lentils....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 CAR

Burlingham, Bo.

Summary: Most books about successful businesses focus on public companies, where the definition for success is steady growth in revenue and profits. Yet there are many excellent, privately held companies marching to the beat of a different drum; they have stricken revenue and profit growth from the top of their mission statements. Instead, they define themselves by their passion for their products and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.409 BUR

Williams, Kyle Edward

Summary: "In this vivid and surprising history, we meet activists, investors, executives, and workers who fought over a simple question: Is the role of the corporation to deliver profits to shareholders, or something more? On one side were "business statesmen" who believed corporate largess could solve social problems. On the other were libertarian intellectuals such as Milton Friedman and his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 WIL

Winkler, Adam

Summary: Traces the two-hundred-year history of corporate America's battle to achieve constitutional freedom from federal control, examining the civil rights debates and key events that shaped the controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision to extend constitutional protections to businesses. -- Provided by publisher. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.06 WIN

Kiley, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Volkswagen Beetle

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Foundation Center 2000

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1 available in Reference Desk, Call number: RDK 361.7025 FOU

Whitehouse, Sheldon

Summary: "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 Mayer's Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322 WHI

Nader, Ralph.

Summary: "Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations on our society. At this pivotal political moment, Americans are more disillusioned with their political leaders than ever. Large majorities tell pollsters that big corporations have too much political power. The ever tightening influence of big business on the mainstream...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.3 NAD

Ross, Alec

Summary: "For 150 years, there has been a contract. Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives. The state holds the power to make them fall in line. And the people hold the power to choose their leaders. But now, this balance has shaken loose. As the marketconsolidates, the lines between Walmart and the Halls of Congress have become razor-thin. Private companies have begun to behave like nations,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322 ROS

Morris, Dick.

Summary: Analyzes power abuses by the American government, wealthy corporations, and high-profile celebrities, in an account that addresses topics ranging from sub-prime mortgages and the secret purchases of Dubai to corporate salaries and the 2008 election.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 MOR

Ramaswamy, Vivek

Summary: "A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 RAM

Mueller, Tom

Summary: The author forces readers to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual rights and corporate power as he traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 MUE

Mayer, Jane.

Summary: An investigation into the growing radical right reveals a network of wealthy people with extreme Libertarian views, led by the Koch brothers, that has been systematically influencing and controlling academic institutions, the courts, and the United States government.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320.52 MAY

Clarke, Richard A. (Richard Alan)

Summary: Presents an urgent assessment of how governments, businesses, and everyday citizens can counter and prevent attacks by criminal hackers determined to create a digital war zone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.25 CLA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 CLA