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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Adam Winkler

Traces the two-hundred-year history of corporate America's battle to achieve constitutional freedom from federal control, examining the civil rights debates and key events that shaped the controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision to extend constitutional protections to businesses.

Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics · high confidenceBusiness & Economics81 signalsLlm Classifier: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsOpen Library: Civil rights of corporations -> Race & EthnicityOpen Library: Civil rights of corporations -> Business & EconomicsCivil Rights & Racial Justice

Award History

0 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor2018FinalistSecondary source
National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionMajor2018FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    Corporate America’s long effort to secure constitutional freedom from federal control culminated in civil-rights debates and key events that shaped the 2010 Supreme Court decision extending constitutional protections to businesses.

    Model confidence 38%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 55%.