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"America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann paves the way to saving our democracy. In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce peace and happiness among people. With the violent exception of the Civil War, American democracy resisted the pressure to disintegrate into factionalism for nearly two centuries, and now our very system of democratic elections is at stake. So how do we save our democracy? Hartmann's newest book in the celebrated Hidden History Series offers a clear call to action and a set of solutions with road maps for individuals and communities to follow to create a safer, more just society and a more equitable and prosperous economy"--

Modern oligarchy erupts -- A second American Civil War? -- Control the media -- If you don't yet own the media, manipulate it -- Controlling congress (both federal and state) -- Seize the courts -- The presidency : trump's playbook -- Inevitable tyranny -- How oligarchs seized the GOP the crisis -- 1,000 years of oligarchy -- An awakened generation challenges British oligarchy -- Revolutionary principles : born equal -- Why slavery persisted -- Best laid plans for liberty : ending American slavery -- New technology, new oligarchy -- Where cotton is king, cotton makes kings -- The oligarchs' war -- Control and safety : the conservatism of oligarchy -- Controlling the commoners : through debt, oligarchs can still own -- People -- Controlling the commoners : medical debt -- Controlling the commoners : illiteracy and student debt -- Controlling the commoners : when all else fails, bring in the police -- The oligarchs' biggest threat : an educated middle class with leisure -- How the oligarchs bought corporate personhood -- The supreme court sets up American oligarchy -- "Starve the beast" and gut the republic -- Holding power : buying friends on both sides of the aisle -- Lies : the first step from oligarchy to tyranny -- Tyrants modify the very language of a culture -- "Deconstruct the state" -- Scapegoating to dilute the outrage -- Scapegoating race, religion, gender -- Normalizing outrageous behavior -- Tyrants always corrupt police -- A tyrant's tool : obedience -- Take militias and violence seriously -- Notice their symbology -- Breaking oligarchy : the oligarchs' media empire -- Breaking oligarchy : a free press -- Breaking oligarchy : economic rights for everybody -- Breaking oligarchy : tax the crap out of the rich -- Breaking oligarchy : publicly funded elections -- Support the resistance -- Breaking oligarchy : restore election integrity -- Breaking oligarchy : build progressive institutions -- Breaking oligarchy : rebuild a progressive democratic party -- We now know. . .

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: How a Single-Payer Healthcare System Helped Stop COVID-19 -- Medicare for All-Why? -- Medicare for All-How? -- Part One: How Bad Things Are in America -- How the Insurance Industry Bought Joe Lieberman and Killed the Public Option -- Obamacare: Rube Goldberg Meets Health Insurance -- Wendell Potter: A Good Man in a Bad Job -- "Dollar Bill" McGuire and the Privatization of Medicare -- The "Advantage" War against Medicare -- You Are Locked-in to Medicare Advantage -- Rick Scott Killed Charlene Dill -- Work to Live, or Live to Work? -- Part Two: The Origins of America's Sickness-for-Profit System -- Germany Gets the World's First Single-Payer System in 1884 -- America, the Land of the Sick -- Frederick Ludwig Hoffman Makes a Discovery -- Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro -- From Scientific Racism to Libertarianism -- New York Shakes Up the Insurance Industry -- From Scientific Racism to "No Compulsory Healthcare!" -- Prudential Helps Kill America's First Healthcare-for-All Campaign -- Part Three: The Modern Fight for a Human Right to Healthcare -- Is Healthcare a Right or a Privilege? -- Why Social Security Doesn't Already Include a Right to Healthcare -- Healthcare to Defeat Fascism -- The Beveridge Report: The British Plan for Defense and Welfare -- How Canada Won a Right to Healthcare -- LBJ Takes It to Reagan and the Doctors -- Medicare: America's Most Successful Racial Integration Program -- Medicare "Inspectors" Defeat Goldwater's Racists -- Medicare Ends Segregation in America's Hospitals -- Ted Kennedy's Fight for Expansion -- Part Four: Saving Lives with a Real Healthcare System -- Undoing Reaganomics and Reducing Inequality Would Save Lives -- Buy the Insurance Companies! -- Medicare for All: The Losers.

"This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation."'from the foreword by Ralph Nader /> />American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same as cancer does in a body, and, like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economic. American monopolies have also seized massive political power and use it to maintain their obscene profits and CEO salaries while crushing small competitors. /> />But Thom Hartmann, America's #1 progressive radio host, shows we've broken the control of behemoths like these before, and we can do it again. /> />Hartmann takes us from the birth of America as a revolt against monopoly (remember the Boston Tea Party'), to the largely successful efforts of both Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and other like-minded leaders to restrain corporations' monopolistic urges, to the massive changes in the rules of business starting during the "Reagan Revolution" that have brought us to the cancer stage of capitalism. /> />He shows the damage monopolies have done to so many industries: agriculture, healthcare, the media, and more. Individuals have taken a hit as well: the average American family pays a $5,000 a year "monopoly tax" in the form of higher prices for everything from pharmaceuticals to airfare to household goods and food. But Hartmann also describes commonsense, historically rooted measures we can take'such as revitalizing antitrust regulation, taxing great wealth, and getting money out of politics'to pry control of our country from the tentacles of the monopolists. />

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: A Rebellion against the Monarchy -- In the Beginning -- A Suicide Pact -- Corporate America Seizes the Court -- Part One: Th eHidden History of Judicial Review -- The Founders' Vision -- The Glue That Binds Us Together -- A Bold Experiment -- Debating the Supreme Court -- Where Does the New Buck Stop? -- The Power Grab -- Whoever Controls the Law Controls the Country -- Jefferson: "The People Themselves" -- Who Decides What the Constitution Means? -- The Powell Memo and the Court -- Partisan Politics in "Original Intent" -- Originalism Is Joined by Textualism -- One True Spokesman -- Clear Preferences versus Ambiguities -- The Corruption of the Court Itself -- Fossil Fuels Seize the Court -- Right-Wing Takeover and Corporate Handouts -- The Constitution Afflicts the Afflicted and Comforts the Comfortable -- The Constitution Protects Property and Its Owners -- The Constitution Protects Killers and Slave Owners -- The Constitution Prefers Property Rights to Human Rights -- The Constitution Protects Takers, Not the Taken -- Part Two: The Hidden History of the People and the Court -- The Supreme Court versus Labor -- Haymarket and Allgeyer: The Public Turns against Labor and the Court Follows -- The Great Depression: The Public Embraces Labor and the Supreme Court Follows -- FDR Tries to Pack the Supreme Court -- The Court Devastates Union Rights -- The Supreme Court versus Civil Rights -- "Separate but Equal": Created by the Court, Ended through Popular Struggle -- The Road to Plessy -- Charles Houston and the Long Slog to End Jim Crow -- Brown: The Supreme Court Overrules Itself -- How Roe Empowered the Right -- The Supreme Court and the Environment -- Local Zoning Law as Early Environmental Law -- Protecting the Environment Goes Federal -- The Planet's Future on Trial -- In Nature's Trust.

Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, explains how the Supreme Court has spilled beyond its Constitutional powers and how we the people should take that power back. Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann asks, What if the Supreme Court didn't have the power to strike down laws? According to the Constitution, it doesn't. From the founding of the republic until 1803, the Supreme Court was the final court of appeals, as it was always meant to be. So where did the concept of judicial review start? As so much of modern American history, it began with the battle between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and with Marbury v. Madison. Hartmann argues it is not the role of the Supreme Court to decide what the law is but rather the duty of the people themselves. He lays out the history of the Supreme Court of the United States, since Alexander Hamilton's defense to modern-day debates, with key examples of cases where the Supreme Court overstepped its constitutional powers. The ultimate remedy to the Supreme Court's abuse of power is with the people--the ultimate arbiter of the law--using the ballot box. America does not belong to the kings and queens; it belongs to the people.

One of our most influential progressive voices tells the story of the hollowing of the American middle class and lays out the choices that we must make now to ensure that the dream of prosperity can live on for generations. - Provided by the publisher.

National radio personality and bestselling author Thom Hartmann tells a compelling, can't-put-it-down story that tracks the history of the loss of democracy in America, culminating in the ultimate theft of human rights before the Supreme Court in 1886 the ascendance of ""corporate personhood"" in the US and worldwide by moneyed interests and the politicians they own

Bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host Thom Hartmann offers readers℗¡11 straightforward solutions to America's most pressing issues.

Millions of working Americans talk, act, and vote as if their economic interests match those of the mega-wealthy, multinational corporations, and the politicians who do their bidding. How did this happen? This work argues that the apologists of the Right have become masters of the subtle and largely subconscious aspects of political communication.