The Selling of "Free Trade" shows how Washington works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when confronted with widespread popular opposition. John R. MacArthur chronicles the brutal and expensive campaign in 1993 that led to passage of the poorly understood,...
MacArthur shows that the ongoing decline of American democracy came vividly true when the American people were sold on NAFTA--what they thought was free trade but was actually a subversion of their political system.