The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere.

• Author: Clinton, Kate
• Position: Brief Article

I was so desperate and depressed in the waning moments of Campaign 2000 that I picked up The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere (Guilford, 2000) from my girlfriend's large stack of nonfiction like it was a promise not a threat. It's great. It was like reading Mary Daly's Beyond God the Father the first time and realizing that I wasn't crazy. In clear prose, Carl Boggs illuminates the American retreat from the public sphere to an eerily privatized landscape of shopping malls, gated communities...