Highly Recommended: 'Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right' Jane Mayer 'Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal' Kim Phillips-Fein 'Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else' by Chrystia Freeland 'One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America' by Kevin M. Kruse
"This disposition to admire, and almost to worship , the rich and powerful, and to despise, or, at least neglect persons of poor and mean conditions...is...the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments." Adam Smith