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Break Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money Audiobook, by Zephyr Teachout Play Audiobook Sample

Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money Audiobook

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Read By: Matt Godfrey, Zephyr Teachout Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781250752635

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

19

Longest Chapter Length:

59:18 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

20 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

30:38 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

"[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then organizes against monopoly power in communities across this country. This book is a blueprint for that organizing. In these pages, you will learn how monopolies and oligopolies have taken over almost every aspect of American life, and you will also learn about what can be done to stop that trend before it is too late."

—From the foreword by Bernie Sanders.

A passionate attack on the monopolies that are throttling American democracy.



Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform monopolists like Facebook, Google, and Bayer (which has merged with the former agricultural giant Monsanto), resulting in a greater concentration of wealth and power than we've seen since the Gilded Age. They are evolving into political entities that often have more influence than the actual government, bending state and federal legislatures to their will and even creating arbitration courts that circumvent the US justice system. How can we recover our freedom from these giants? Anti-corruption scholar and activist Zephyr Teachout has the answer: Break 'Em Up.

This audiobook is a clarion call for liberals and leftists looking to find a common cause. Teachout makes a compelling case that monopolies are the root cause of many of the issues that today's progressives care about; they drive economic inequality, harm the planet, limit the political power of average citizens, and historically-disenfranchised groups bear the brunt of their shameful and irresponsible business practices. In order to build a better future, we must eradicate monopolies from the private sector and create new safeguards that prevent new ones from seizing power.

Through her expert analysis of monopolies in several sectors and their impact on courts, journalism, inequality, and politics, Teachout offers a concrete path toward thwarting these enemies of working Americans and reclaiming our democracy before it’s too late.

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About Zephyr Teachout

Zephyr Teachout is a scholar of constitutional law and an associate professor of law at Fordham Law School. She was the first national director of the Sunlight Foundation, and she also served as director of Internet organizing for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign. Zephyr cofounded A New Way Forward, an organization built to break up the power of big banks, and was involved with Occupy Wall Street.