Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age - Softcover

Susan Crawford is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. She lives in New York City.

"Crawford shows us that the railroad barons of today run cable companies. These monopolies raise prices, stifle competition, and drag the U.S. further behind in global telecommunications revolution."--Clay Shirky, author of "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations"--Clay Shirky (03/23/2012)

"Important and provocative." --Sam Gustin, "Time.com"--Sam Gustin "Time.com "

"Federal regulatory agencies make definitional decisions in the lives of Americans. But they are little covered by our diminished media; and even when the stories are told, they tend to be told from the perspective of the powerful. That's what makes Susan Crawford's book ". . . "so remarkable. She gets the facts straight--I know, because I was there. But she also does something just as important: she puts the facts in perspective, providing readers with an analysis that is essential if we are ever going to forge
communications policies that serve all Americans." --Micheal J./i>

--Michael J. Copps"The Nation" (04/12/2013)

"With an appealing blend of earnestness and feistiness, Crawford is set on turning the sorry state of broadband and wireless services in the United States into the biggest populist outrage since Elizabeth Warren went after banks." --John B./i>
--John B. Judis "The New Republic "

""Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age" . . . offers a calm but chilling state-of-play on the information age in the United States. . . If you are looking for the answer to why much of the developed world has cheap, reliable connections to the Internet while America seems just one step ahead of the dial-up era, her office--or her book--would be a good place to find out."--David Carr, "The New York Times"
--David Carr "The New York Times "