Antitrust: Taking on monopoly power from the gilded age to the digital age by Amy Klobuchar
Completed: 6/7/2021
Recommendation: Not Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
This is a boring topic. You know what makes it more boring? Hearing about how the west tried to reform trusts, but wasn't successful. In the 1800s. A lot. I do not find it compelling that Klobuchar lived down the street from a robber baron. It is not interesting to me that William Jennings Bryan ran for president and repeatedly lost on an anti trust platform. I do not find it compelling that Klobuchar has repeatedly put up the same bill in the Senate and that it has not passed (nor do I need to hear the few sentence summary once let alone several times--put that in the appendix). The 25 steps that she plans to take are marginally interesting, but to get part way through the list and get another history lesson because the history was not properly covered in the rest of the book was stunning. I am exhausted listening to this book which seems to largely document failure (with the glaring exception of her effort to get AT&T broken up as lawyer for MCI).
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