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GOLIATH - MATT STOLLER KARTONIERT (TB)

A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American
politics  resulting in the emergence of populism and authoritarianism  the fall of the
Democratic Party-while also providing the steps needed to create a new democracy. Americans
once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny  one crafted by Thomas
Jefferson and updated for the industrial age by Louis Brandeis. A concentration of power 
whether in the hands of a military dictator or a JP Morgan  was understood as autocratic and
dangerous to individual liberty and democracy. This idea stretched back to the country's
founding. In the 1930s  people observed that the Great Depression was caused by financial
concentration in the hands of a few whose misuse of their power induced a financial collapse.
They drew on this tradition to craft the New Deal. In Goliath  Matt Stoller explains how
authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time in eighty
years  as the outcome of the 2016 election shook our faith in democratic institutions. It has
brought to the fore dangerous forces that many modern Americans never even knew existed.
Today's bitter recriminations and panic represent more than just fear of the future  they
reflect a basic confusion about what is happening and the historical backstory that brought us
to this moment. The true effects of populism  a shrinking middle class  and concentrated
financial wealth are only just beginning to manifest themselves under the current
administrations. The lessons of Stoller's study will only grow more relevant as time passes.
Building upon his viral article in The Atlantic  How the Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul 
Stoller illustrates in rich detail how we arrived at this tenuous moment  and the steps we must
take to create a new democracy.

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