In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal government prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate impact looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s Dark Cash.

Americans know something is wrong within their federal government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship or grant, and personal experiences to provide the 1st hands-on, comprehensive description of what’s eliminated wrong, revealing multiple strategies through about Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy which our government has been infiltrated and impaired by corporate and business capabilities. Captured reveals a genuine oversight from the Founders, and displays how and why corporate and business power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike dread in elected associates who don’t “get best” by intimidating million-dollar ‘dark money’ election attacks (a threat far better and less costly than the real attack); to stack the judiciary-even the Supreme Court-in ‘business-friendly’ ways; to ‘catch” the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution’s last bastion for common citizens; also to create a corporate and business ‘alternate truth’ on public health and security issues like climate change.

Captured implies that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we are able to and must take our American government back to our very own hands.