Will you help me title my next book?
I just finished writing it and it will be coming out this summer…
I’ve written a new book and would like your help in selecting a title. Here’s a link where you can weigh in. The deadline is this Friday:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XJB3YNB
Here’s a quick description of the book:
What if everything you were taught about corporate power in America was based on a lie?
I stumbled onto this crime scene by accident. In a dusty Vermont library, buried in the fine print of an old Supreme Court case, I found something that changed everything I thought I knew about America. A single sentence that explained why your wages stopped rising. Why your kids are drowning in debt. Why healthcare can bankrupt a family. Why the American Dream your parents and grandparents knew has become a bitter memory.
This is a whodunit. A political murder mystery that’s been hiding in plain sight for nearly 140 years.
In 1886, a corrupt Supreme Court justice and a court reporter conspired to change the course of American history. They granted human rights to corporations over the actual objection and ruling of the Court’s majority. Like a hidden grenade, it lay in American law for almost a century until it was turned against the American middle class by the Reagan Revolution.
There’s a mastermind. There’s a triggerman. There’s a conspiracy of wealthy and powerful men who committed a crime so audacious that generations of Americans never even knew they were victims. And there are heirs to that crime walking among us today, collecting the dividends of a fraud that’s transferred trillions from working families into their own pockets.
The American Dream didn’t die of natural causes. It didn’t fade away. It was murdered.
It’s time we solved the case and brought the killers to justice.
title "The American Dream" didn't die,it was Murdered a Novel by Thom Hartmann author ( how's this for your title? ) Congratulations on your New Book, Thom. I know you will do well 🙏 and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the idea behind the making of the "corporation" as a legal entity, to sheild shareholders from liability for the corporations debts by not allowing the corporate debts to pass through to the shareholder? That is how corporate law works. Of course, it was a way for a business to gain investment capital by selling shares in the company. But, people were not going to buy shares in the company if they became personally liable if the company acquired debt or liability of some kind. So, the corporation was invented. What that means is that there is, by definition, no "people" behind a corporation. So, it has always flabergasted me a little that those who want to put no limits on what corporations can contribute to political campaigns now claim that the justification for being able to do that is that corporations are ""people."