The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Major Works
Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992 1993 2000) ISBN 978-0-8014-8639-5
Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy (1998) ISBN 978-0-8014-3574-4
It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999 2001)
What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003 2004) ISBN 978-0-465-00177-4
The Book on Bush: How George W. Alterman has also been a contributing editor to ELLE and a regular columnist for Worth and the London Sunday Express. His political weblog named Altercation was hosted by MSNBC.

January 14 1960) is an American English teacher historian journalist author media critic blogger and educator. com from 2002 until 2006 moved to Media Matters for America until December 2008 and is now hosted by The Nation. Eric Alterman (b.