When he meets Tamsey, a former slave, and her family trying to escape the reach of the Fugitive Slave Act, Moody sees an opportunity for redemption. But the world is on the cusp of momentous change, and though some things may be forgotten, nothing is ever really forgiven.
This book is a blueprint for that organizing. In these pages, you will learn how monopolies and oligopolies have taken over almost every aspect of American life, and you will also learn about what can be done to stop that trend before it is too late.
A passionate attack on the monopolies that are throttling American democracy. Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform monopolists like Facebook, Google, and Bayer which has merged with the former agricultural giant Monsanto , resulting in a greater concentration of wealth and power than we've seen since the Gilded Age.
They are evolving into political entities that often have more influence than the actual government, bending state and federal legislatures to their will and even creating arbitration courts that circumvent the US justice system.
How can we recover our freedom from these giants? This book is a clarion call for liberals and leftists looking to find a common cause. Teachout makes a compelling case that monopolies are the root cause of many of the issues that today's progressives care about; they drive economic inequality, harm the planet, limit the political power of average citizens, and historically-disenfranchised groups bear the brunt of their shameful and irresponsible business practices.
In order to build a better future, we must eradicate monopolies from the private sector and create new safeguards that prevent new ones from seizing power. Then came a greater ordeal: confinement in a Civil-War-era stockade.
Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every service. The road has been recently plowed and sanded, though the sand is soon submerged in a trackless swath that plunges and swoops around fenceless curves, the only barrier a few tall, red-tipped extensions on skinny posts, scant warning that the road stops and thin air begins. We are barely making thirty kilometres an hour. The sky has lowered until it seems to press against our foreheads.
We meet a truck, then an hour later, another, just the three of us on this road: an old man who grips the wheel furiously, three young boys in cowboy hats waving, and the two of us, ashen-faced tourists in our summer wear. The others are heading for Escalante.
Nobody is travelling our way. We pass the Escalante Petrified Forest. We pass the Anasazi Indian Village near Boulder, where the mail was still delivered by mule until the s.
It is marked on the map in pink: Closed in Winter. We have no interest in the sights—Mesa Verde, the Arches—I just want to get to a city where there are mechanics, car rental companies, good hotels, and at least one fine restaurant, in that order.
We need to get out of the mountains, into the desert again. Breakfast at the Exit Cafe by Wayne Grady. As a young man, Virgil Moody vowed he would never be like his father, he would never own slaves. When he moves from his father's plantation in Savannah to New Orleans, he takes with him Annie, a tiny woman with sharp eyes and a sharper tongue, who he is sure would not survive life on the plantation. She'll be much safer with him, away from his father's cruelty.
And when he discovers Annie's pregnancy, already a few months along, he is all the more certain that he made the right decision. As the years pass, the divide between Moody's assumptions and Annie's reality widens ever further. Moody even comes to think of Annie as his wife and Lucas as their son. Of course, they are not. As Annie reminds him, in moments of anger, she and Moody will never be equal. She and her son are enslaved. When their "family" breaks apart in the most brutal and tragic way, and Lucas flees the only life he's ever known, Moody must ask himself whether he has become the man he never wanted to be--but is he willing to hear the answer?
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