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Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (2019) [audiobook+ebook]

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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.

File Duration
Goliath - Part 01.mp3 33m46s
Goliath - Part 02.mp3 1h6m
Goliath - Part 03.mp3 1h12m
Goliath - Part 04.mp3 45m16s
Goliath - Part 05.mp3 37m33s
Goliath - Part 06.mp3 45m0s
Goliath - Part 07.mp3 51m37s
Goliath - Part 08.mp3 44m55s
Goliath - Part 09.mp3 52m18s
Goliath - Part 10.mp3 46m26s
Goliath - Part 11.mp3 58m5s
Goliath - Part 12.mp3 1h14m
Goliath - Part 13.mp3 45m0s
Goliath - Part 14.mp3 39m22s
Goliath - Part 15.mp3 1h5m
Goliath - Part 16.mp3 1h15m
Goliath - Part 17.mp3 49m31s
Goliath - Part 18.mp3 41m17s
Goliath - Part 19.mp3 57m57s
Goliath - Part 20.mp3 49m5s
Goliath - Part 21.mp3 41m45s
Goliath - Part 22.mp3 44m57s
Goliath - Part 23.mp3 38m1s
Goliath - Part 24.mp3 42m36s
Total Duration 20h16m27s