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Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed, Revised and Updated Edition
Myths of Free Trade Why American Trade Policy Has Failed Revised and Updated Edition Author:Sherrod Brown A revised and updated edition of the provocative book from the man Studs Terkel calls "one of the hippest members of Congress." — The subject of widespread attention when first released, including the pages of the New York Times Book Review, Myths of Free Trade provides a front-row seat to the Washington spectacle of corporate lobby... more »ing and political intimidation that keeps the free-trade mantra alive as American policy, despite all the evidence of its failure.
U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown?a leading progressive voice in Congress and a twelve-year veteran of Washington's trade wars?takes apart free-trade dogma, myth by myth. His book is an accessible, personal, globe-trotting chronicle, taking the reader from the coffee fields of Nicaragua to the sweatshops of China; from the toxic wastelands on the Mexican border to the halls of Congress.
Described as an "essential primer" by The Progressive and a "voice of truth" by Public Citizen News, this paperback edition includes a fascinating update that describes the 2005 congressional battle over the Central American Free Trade Agreement?a battle led by Tom DeLay on one side and Sherrod Brown on the other.« less