Myths Of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed

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The subject of widespread attention when first released, including the pages of the New York Times Book Review, Myths of Free Trade provides a front-row seat to the Washington spectacle of corporate lobbying and political intimidation that keeps the free-trade mantra alive as American policy, despite all the evidence of its failure.

U.S. Representative Sherrod Browna leading progressive voice in Congress and a twelve-year veteran of Washington's trade warstakes apart free-trade dogma, myth by myth. His book is an accessible, personal, globe-trotting chronicle, taking the reader from the coffee fields of Nicaragua to the sweatshops of China; from the toxic wastelands on the Mexican border to the halls of Congress.

Described as an "essential primer" by The Progressive and a "voice of truth" by Public Citizen News, this edition includes a fascinating update that describes the congressional battle over the Central American Free Trade Agreementa battle led by Tom DeLay on one side and Sherrod Brown on the other.

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"Sherrod Brown demolishes the seven myths of NAFTA, and the `wonders of free-trade. . . . In Brown we have an eloquent public servantrather than a go-along private one." Studs Terkel

"Sherrod Brown reveals the power, corruption, and lies behind U.S. trade policy." Eric Schlosser

Author Bio

United States Senator Sherrod Brown serves on the Senate Committee on Finance, the Senate Committee on Banking, the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, and the Veterans Affairs Committee. Previously, he represented Ohios 13th Congressional District and served on the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. Brown has also taught in Ohio public schools and at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Congress from the Inside. He lives in Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio.