<B>A revised and updated edition of the provocative book from the man Studs Terkel calls "one of the hippest members of Congress."</B><br/><br/>The subject of widespread attention when first released, including the pages of the <I>New York Times Book Review, Myths of Free Trade</I> provides a front-row seat to the Washington spectacle of corporate lobbying and political intimidation that keeps the free-trade mantra alive as American policy, despite all the evidence of its failure.<br/><br/>U.S. Representative Sherrod Browna leading progressive voice in Congress and a twelve-year veteran of Washington's trade warstakes apart free-trade dogma, myth by myth. His book is an accessible, personal, globe-trotting chronicle, taking the reader from the coffee fields of Nicaragua to the sweatshops of China; from the toxic wastelands on the Mexican border to the halls of Congress.<br/><br/>Described as an "essential primer" by <I>The Progressive</I> and a "voice of truth" by <I>Public Citizen News</I>, this paperback edition includes a fascinating update that describes the 2005 congressional battle over the Central American Free Trade Agreementa battle led by Tom DeLay on one side and Sherrod Brown on the other.