1. Jane E. Brody, “Half of Us Face Obesity, Dire Projections Show,” New York Times, February 10, 2020.
2. Karen Weise, “Prime Power: How Amazon Squeezes the Businesses Behind Its Store,” New York Times, December 19, 2019.
3. Two recent notable exceptions are K. Sabeel Rahman’s Democracy Against Domination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), and Tim Wu’s The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2018).
4. Lepore covers the subject of “antitrust” law but once in her more-than-700-page book, and then only in passing, yet writes in great depth about the contemporary professional race-baiter Alex Jones. Jill Lepore, These Truths (New York: W. W. Norton, 2018).
5. One recent exception to this is James Huston’s Securing the Fruits of Labor. Huston provides an excellent recounting of the importance of what he calls the “labor theory of property” in the thinking of early Americans, an issue I examine in depth in chapter three. Huston also details American fears of aristocratic ownership structures. But other than a passing reference to the Sherman Antitrust Act, he spends little time looking at how Americans distributed power and wealth. James Huston, Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765–1900 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press), 1998.
6. Leslie Harris, “I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me,” Politico, March 6, 2020.
7. W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction (New York: Atheneum, 1992), 25.
8. Ibid., 648.
9. Robert Reich, “The Political Roots of Widening Inequality,” American Prospect, April 28, 2015.
10. Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning (New York: Bold Type Books, 2016), 508.