TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- OTHER BOOKS BY CHARLES DERBER -- TO MY STUDENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: WHO REALLY RULES AMERICA -- THE REGIME -- FROM THE ELECTION TRAP TO REGIME CHANGE -- HIDDEN POWER, DEMOCRACY, AND HEGEMONY -- WHERE WE GO FROM HERE -- CHAPTER 1: AMERICAN REGIMES -- THE FIRST CORPORATE REGIME -- THE PROGRESSIVE REGIME -- THE SECOND CORPORATE REGIME -- THE NEW DEAL REGIME -- CHAPTER 2: THE POWERS THAT BE -- ENTER THE THIRD CORPORATE REGIME -- CHAPTER 3: THE RULES OF CHANGE -- RULE 1: EMBRACE DEFEAT -- RULE 2: PLAY OFFENSE, THINK BIG -- RULE 3: MAKE YOUR PARTY A SOCIAL MOVEMENT -- RULE 4: IT'S ALL ABOUT CREDIBILITY -- CHAPTER 4: CRACKS IN THE REGIME -- WHY REGIMES CRACK UP -- HISTORY OF A CRACK UP -- CRACKS IN THE THIRD CORPORATE REGIME -- CHAPTER 5: BLACK MAGIC -- CIVILIZATION UNDER THREAT -- THE ALIEN ESTABLISHMENT -- PERMANENT WAR -- THE ELECTION TRAP AND THE RED/BLUE DIVIDE -- CHAPTER 6: FASCISM LITE -- THE PROPHET OF AMERICAN FASCISM -- CAUSES AND CATALYSTS -- FASCISM TODAY -- WARNING SIGNS -- CHAPTER 7: THE AMERICAN RECIPE FOR CHANGE -- REMEMBER THE POPULISTS! -- THE PROGRESSIVES -- THE NEW PROGRESSIVE POPULISTS -- CHAPTER 8: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE DEMOCRATS? -- THE PARTY JOINS THE REGIME -- CHAPTER 9: A CURE FOR THE BLUES -- THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GETS A MAKEOVER -- WHY THE DEMOCRATS MIGHT TAKE THE CURE -- CHAPTER 10: SAVING DEMOCRACY -- PULL EM DOWN -- BUILD IT UP -- THE NEW DEMOCRACY PROGRAM -- ANSWERS TO YOUR HARD-NOSED QUESTIONS -- APPENDIX I: WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW -- APPENDIX II: OR GANIZATIONS TO JOIN -- APPENDIX III: MAGAZINES -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- ABOUT BERRETT-KOEHLER PUBLISHERS -- BE CONNECTED.