Mintz and Schwartz offer a fascinating tour of the corporate world. Through an intensive study of interlocking corporate directorates, they show that for the first time in American history the loan making and stock purchasing and selling powers are concentrated in the same hands: the leadership of major financial firms. Their detailed descriptions of corporate case histories include the forced ouster of Howard Hughes from TWA in the late fifties as a result of lenders' pressure; the collapse of Chrysler in the late seventies owing to banks' refusal to provide further capital infusions; and...

"Michael Schwartz's book is really three books in one an analysis of the structural changes that produced one of the most oppressive social systems the world has known (the one-crop cotton tenancy economy and the system of institutionalized racism and authoritarian one-party politics that was required to preserve the fragile economic arrangement); a theoretical analysis of the origins, mobilization, and outcome of insurgent challenges; and a meticulous application of that theory to the rise and collapse of the Populist movement." Craig Jenkins, "Theory and Society
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Die Frage nach der "braunen Vergangenheit" fuhrender deutscher Vertriebenenpolitiker wird seit langem diskutiert. Bereits in den 1960er Jahren mussten zwei Bundesvertriebenenminister - Theodor Oberlander und Hans Kruger - wegen NS-Vorwurfen zurucktreten. Kruger war zugleich der erste Prasident des 1957/58 gegrundeten "Bundes der Vertriebenen." In jungster Zeit ist das Verhalten der gesamten dreizehnkopfigen ersten Fuhrung des BdV im "Dritten Reich" zum Thema geworden. Michael Schwartz gibt in seiner Studie - entstanden im Auftrag des Bundesministerium des Innern - eine differenzierte...