The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, & the Subversion of American Democracy - Softcover

John R. MacArthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520231783 ISBN 13: 9780520231788

Publisher: University of California Press, 2001

Synopsis

The Selling of "Free Trade" shows how Washington works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when confronted with widespread popular opposition. John R. MacArthur chronicles the brutal and expensive campaign in 1993 that led to passage of the poorly understood, highly controversial law creating the North American Free Trade Agreement.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"If there is spin, there is counterspin: The Selling of 'Free Trade' is a devastating unraveling of yet another Bill Clinton con job. MacArthur tells the NAFTA story in the voices of those who did the spinning and those who suffered from it. It doesn't get much better."―Seymour M. Hersh

"A gripping and fresh analysis of the corporate construction of an onrushing NAFTA and the human damage in its wake. MacArthur demonstrates what happens when an underdeveloped democracy is confronted by an overdeveloped corporation-governmental oligarchy."―Ralph Nader, consumer advocate.

About the Author:

John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine, is an award-winning journalist and author of Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War (California, 1993).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0520231783
• ISBN 13: 9780520231788
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 412