

America, Compromised
Author: Lawrence Lessig
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 05/14/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Law, Government, Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Synopsis
What Lessig shows, brilliantly and persuasively, is that we can't blame the problems of contemporary American life on bad people, as our discourse all too often tends to do. Rather, he explains, "We have allowed core institutions of America's economic, social, and political life to become corrupted. Not by evil souls, but by good souls. Not through crime, but through compromise." Through case studies of Congress, finance, the academy, the media, and the law, Lessig shows how institutions are drawn away from higher purposes and toward money, power, quick rewards—the first steps to corruption.
America is on the wrong path. If we don't acknowledge our own part in that, and act now to change it, we will hand our children a less perfect union than we were given. It will be a long struggle. This book represents the first steps.