This is a reprint of a rather famous SF book from the 50's by Pohl & Kornbluth. It is truly a classic, although it's been years since I read it. "In this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combione of corporate interests---battles them in board meetings and in dark alleys---in a struggle that lays bare some brutal promises of the future....promises we are beginning to make right now." (Sounds like the vision of the future that the right-wing Republicans would view as Nirvana!!)