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21 Machetes    by John Geesman
Price: Free! 21050 words. Published on August 3, 2010. .

Take one of America's largest utilities...a delusional, error-prone CEO...a $46.5 million war chest filched from customers...California's squalid, pay-to-play ballot initiative process...what results? Hubris, overreach and venality upended by truthiness. Over-torqued battlefield dispatches create a fast-paced nonfiction novella -- a bugle call to that silent army of citizen optimists everywhere.
Common Sense About the Roberts' Court Monster    by Richard Keen
Price: $0.99 USD. 11460 words. Published on November 6, 2011. .

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC has solidified the doctrine of corporate personhood, that corporations are persons that have the same constitutional rights of natural people. This book exposes the progression of control of corporations by our founding fathers to the super-human power of corporations over their creators today. We must reverse the Court's ruling.
G.O.P. War On U.S.    by Paul Covell
Price: $8.99 USD. 73940 words. Published on July 9, 2012. .

G.O.P. is at War with U. S. Republicans want to limit Women's rights to abortion and contraceptives. G.O.P.-controlled States are using voter ID laws to suppress the vote and intimidate voters. G.O.P. is a minority Party that is trying to hold power by by suppressing the majority vote. G.O.P. governors, such as Rick Scott (FL) are trying to purge progressives from the voter list
Citizens DisUnited: Passive Investors, Drone CEOs, and the Corporate Capture of the American Dream    by Robert A.G. Monks
Price: $2.99 USD. 50770 words. Published by miniverpress on March 9, 2013. .

Robert A. G. Monks has been a CEO and board member of large public companies, the head of the Labor Department's ERISA agency, and an entrepreneur/founder of companies including proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services. In this book, he shows how corporate executives divert shareholder assets to undermine democracy and enrich themselves, putting both capitalism and democracy at risk.