Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation

Author/Contributor(s):	Frydl, Kathleen J
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	02/13/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This book presents a political history of corporate "identity politics," showing how corporations borrowed strategies from liberal movements in order to gain privileges designed for the benefit of natural persons. Looking beyond the courtroom, Kathleen J. Frydl argues that members of Congress played a decisive role in recognizing corporate personhood and securing identity-based powers. Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation places the corporate identity politics agenda at the heart of the modern conservative movement, the crisis of liberalism, and the fractured politics that define the current American political moment.