TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword by Troy Duster
Foreword by Amy Goodman
Preface

Introduction: A Road Map

Part One: Public, It’s Ours; Private, It’s Theirs
Chapter 1: ‘Morning in America?’
Chapter 2: Drawing the Line: Private Versus Public Goods
Chapter 3: Introducing Corporations
Chapter 4: Forms of Privatization

Part Two: Privatization at Work
Chapter 5: A Worst-Case Scenario: For-Profit Private Prisons
Chapter 6: Tracking and Backtracking Politicians
Chapter 7: Keep the Paying Guests Coming: Filling Up the Prisons
Chapter 8: We Love This Problem: Lives for Sale
Chapter 9: Don’t Fence Me In: Private Walls and Public Rights
Chapter 10: Privatizing Against Equality
Chapter 11: Minds for Sale
Chapter 12: Privatizing Social Security: A Case Study of Ideology, Strategy, Tactics

Part Three: The Great Divide
Chapter 13: The Two Cultures of the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 14: Appreciating the Public Sector
Chapter 15: A Fable, and a Fabulous True Story
Chapter 16: An Offer No Corporation Could Refuse

Part Four: Freedom, Revolution, Progress
Chapter 17: The American Dream – Always at Risk
Chapter 18: Differing Visions, Conflicting Values
Chapter 19: ‘Tricking Down’ into the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 20: Methods that Affect Our Lives
Chapter 21: Resistant Strengths

Afterword

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Resources