America is in serious economic trouble — but don't expect our leaders to do anything about it. Thanks to globalization, America's rich and powerful now have more in common with the governing classes of other nations than they have with ordinary Americans. In Global Class War, economic commentator Jeff Faux explains the way both Democratic and Republican leaders have used so-called trade agreements to write a new global constitution that protects only one kind of citizen — the corporate investor. With the U.S. economy about to drown in a sea of rising red ink and American corporations relentlessly outsourcing our jobs and technology, a deep economic crisis is in the cards. Jeff Faux concludes this blistering expose with a convincing vision of a prosperous and democratic North America that could benefit every American, not just those at the top.

You will never think about 'free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. As Faux makes clear, the globalization debate is really about whose interests are served by global elites, and how we need to go about reclaiming a democracy that serves ordinary people. This book should transform public discourse in America.

-Robert Kuttner, founding coeditor of the American Prospect and a contributing columnist to BusinessWeek

Jeff Faux's astonishing story of how class works will scandalize the best names in Wall Street and Washington-especially the much admired Robert Rubin, who along with other elites colluded behind the backs of ordinary citizens in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The most cynical Americans will be shocked by the sordid details. This really is an important book.

-William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism and Secrets of the Temple

Globalization is a cover for American imperialism, but the beneficiaries are not the American people at the expense of foreigners but corporate executives at the expense of working-class and poor people wherever they may be. Jeff Faux offers a comprehensive and devastating analysis.

-Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire

"You will never think about 'free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. As Faux makes clear, the globalization debate is really about whose interests are served by global elites, and how we need to go about reclaiming a democracy that serves ordinary people. This book should transform public discourse in America."

—Robert Kuttner, founding coeditor of the American Prospect and a contributing columnist to BusinessWeek

"Jeff Faux's astonishing story of how class works will scandalize the best names in Wall Street and Washington—especially the much admired Robert Rubin, who along with other elites colluded behind the backs of ordinary citizens in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The most cynical Americans will be shocked by the sordid details. This really is an important book."

—William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalismand Secrets of the Temple

"Globalization is a cover for American imperialism, but the beneficiaries are not the American people at the expense of foreigners but corporate executives at the expense of working-class and poor people wherever they may be. Jeff Faux offers a comprehensive and devastating analysis."

—Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire