Argues that corporations infringe upon personal freedoms as they prioritize commercial gain over individual, social, or cultural gain. From Starbucks to Nike, companies across industry lines spend untold millions of dollars selling themselves not as engines for corporate profit but as reflections of human culture, values, and relationships. Court, a consumer advocate, calls this corporateering, "when corporations exceed their traditional role in a marketplace to dominate the cultural sphere and compromise individuals' rights, freedoms, power and the democratic systems that protect them." Setting out to explore the tactics and strategies that corporations employ to transmit cultural messages to gain what he argues is too much power, Court shows through numerous examples how such corporations rob citizens of their personal freedoms, including privacy, security, and the right to legal recourse. His appendix offers language for countering corporate power over individual freedoms and a list of laws and government agencies that can protect against corporateering. This book offers an interesting perspective on the power of corporate America and a decidedly antagonistic view of it. Mary Whaley Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Jamie Court is the executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica, California, and the co-author of Making a Killing: HMOs and the Threat to Your Health . He has helped to pioneer patients' rights laws in states around the country.