Democracy Incorporated (Princeton University Press)

Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all$627 In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled$628 Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"$629 Democracy Incorporated is one of the most worrying diagnoses of America's political ills to emerge in decades.

It is sure to be a lightning rod for political debate for years to come. Now with a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Chris Hedges, Democracy Incorporated remains an essential work for understanding the state of democracy in America.