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Off the Page: "Power Corrupts" with author Richard Munson

Cleaning Up America's Biggest Industry

2025-07-01 19:00:00 2025-07-01 20:00:00 America/Chicago Off the Page: "Power Corrupts" with author Richard Munson Join Hinsdale author Dick Munson as he discusses his new book "Power Corrupts: Cleaning Up America’s Biggest Industry" which investigates corruption in the electric industry. Hinsdale Public Library - Community Meeting Room

Tuesday, July 01
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-07-01 19:00:00 2025-07-01 20:00:00 America/Chicago Off the Page: "Power Corrupts" with author Richard Munson Join Hinsdale author Dick Munson as he discusses his new book "Power Corrupts: Cleaning Up America’s Biggest Industry" which investigates corruption in the electric industry. Hinsdale Public Library - Community Meeting Room

Hinsdale Public Library

Community Meeting Room

Join Hinsdale author Dick Munson as he discusses his new book "Power Corrupts: Cleaning Up America’s Biggest Industry" which investigates corruption in the electric industry.

Join us to celebrate the release of local author Richard Munson's new book, Power Corrupts: Cleaning Up America’s Biggest Industry.

Electric utilities have faced a few scandals over the past century or so, but corruption is growing as the power industry's conventional business model is falling apart. Modern technologies challenge their monopoly mindsets and outmoded generators. Threatened utilities, in turn, gun for taxpayer- and ratepayer-funded subsidies, which they increasingly seek through fraud-filled, underhanded schemes. Munson highlights how power corruption proliferates, enabling outmoded generators to waste money, spew unnecessary pollution, and block clean-energy innovations. Corruption, however, can be challenged. 

Power Corrupts: Cleaning Up America's Biggest Industry calls for competition and transparency, serving as an essential primer for readers interested in the history of the electric industry.

Copies will be available for library check out starting on June 17.

About the Author

Richard Munson is the author of several books, including Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, From Tech to Table: 25 Innovators Reimagining Food, and Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist. He is a renowned clean energy advocate. 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books |

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