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A 3 page report on the book Gangs of America by Ted Nace. No additional sources cited.
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United States. His work focuses on many different times and events and corporations in the history of the nation and illustrates how corporations have long aimed at making their own
profits regardless of any other concern, and that they have often left destruction in their wake. The following paper offers a report on the book, published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers in
2005. Gangs of America The work of Nace is incredibly extensive and cannot be summed up in this short space. It
is a work that takes the reader into the world of what is often seen as the first corporation, the Virginia Company, as well as the Royal African Company. There
was also the East India Company. These companies were created in order to reap the rewards of whatever the new land had to offer, regardless of any consequences. It truly
is a chapter that illustrates how the United States, before it was the United States, was perhaps founded on corporations and corporate ideals. For example, the author notes how, "the
East India Company planned to replace independent local merchants with a company-owned distribution system" which clearly indicates a very early sort of corporate thinking (Nace, 2005; 43).
The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corporations, at
some times, created wealth for some but then also clearly created a situation wherein wealth was not even distributed by any stretch of the imagination. And, these businesses/corporations were in
constant battle with the laws as they sought gains for their own desires rather than paying attention to the needs of a nation. They have long been entities that all
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