Description
The subject of widespread attention when first released, including the pages of the New York Times Book Review, Myths of Free Trade supplies a front-row seat to the Washington spectacle of corporate lobbying and political intimidation that assists in keeping the free-trade mantra alive as American policy, regardless of the entire evidence of its failure.
U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown—a number one 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, private, globe-trotting chronicle, taking the reader from the coffee fields of Nicaragua to the sweatshops of China; from the toxic wastelands at the Mexican border to the halls of Congress.
Described as an “very important primer” by The Progressive and a “voice of truth” by Public Citizen News, this edition includes an enchanting update that describes the congressional battle over the Central American Free Trade Agreement—a battle led by Tom DeLay on one facet and Sherrod Brown at the other.