| Preamble................................................................... | ix |
| Introduction............................................................... | xi |
| America's False Reality.................................................... | 1 |
| America—Where Nearly Everything and Everybody is for Sale.................. | 4 |
| American Advertising....................................................... | 7 |
| America's Self-Immolation and Indulgence................................... | 11 |
| America's Charity Marketing................................................ | 14 |
| America's Obsession with Marketing, Sales, and Consumption................. | 16 |
| America: "Land of Opportunity"............................................. | 18 |
| Social Networking.......................................................... | 20 |
| America's Corrupting Political System...................................... | 22 |
| Political Salesmanship..................................................... | 24 |
| Marketing and Advertising Legal Services................................... | 27 |
| American Advertising Effectiveness......................................... | 29 |
| Effectiveness of Advertising Communications................................ | 32 |
| Cyber Ads and False Advertising............................................ | 34 |
America Has Become a Country where Nothing and Nobody Works in the Public Interest, Particularly in Sales............................................ | 36 |
| Over-pricing to Make Buyers Feel They are Getting a Bargain................ | 38 |
| American Marketing and Made in America..................................... | 40 |
| America's Customer Disservice.............................................. | 42 |
| America's Production....................................................... | 44 |
| America's Super Rich Shopping and Spending Epidemic........................ | 46 |
| America's Drinking Water Sales............................................. | 48 |
| American Diet Marketing.................................................... | 50 |
| American Sales Inventiveness and Technology Development.................... | 52 |
| America's Innovation and Inventiveness in Marketing........................ | 54 |
| Consumption as an Economic Locomotive...................................... | 56 |
| Elderly Marketing.......................................................... | 58 |
| Typical Drug User Notice................................................... | 61 |
| The American Gift Card Business Racket..................................... | 62 |
| Groupons and Other Electronic Marketing Tools.............................. | 63 |
| Costs of American Marketing and Advertising................................ | 65 |
| Making Advertising, Marketing, and Sales All Social........................ | 68 |
| Additional Social Media Drawbacks.......................................... | 71 |
| Selling Life Insurance..................................................... | 73 |
| Big Brother is Watching You................................................ | 74 |
| Costs of Social Media...................................................... | 76 |
| Marketing Insurance........................................................ | 78 |
| Marketing Education........................................................ | 80 |
| Class Action and Legal Services............................................ | 82 |
| Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing.................................... | 86 |
| Debt and Assumed Debt Collection........................................... | 88 |
| Financial Services and Investment Marketing................................ | 90 |
| Sales of Sub-prime Mortgages and Other Government Approved Instruments..... | 92 |
| Selling America to Itself.................................................. | 95 |
| A Casualty of the Sales Nation Might be Free Journalism.................... | 97 |
| America's Tax System....................................................... | 99 |
| Too Big to Exist........................................................... | 100 |
| Jobs and Marketing......................................................... | 102 |
| No Bonus for Albert Einstein............................................... | 104 |
| When Working for a Living and Producing is Outmoded........................ | 106 |
| Why America Needs a National Consumption Tax............................... | 109 |
| Impact of Sales and Marketing on U.S. Economy.............................. | 111 |
| People's Rights and Properties............................................. | 113 |
| Protecting Privacy and Personal Information................................ | 116 |
| Banking System for the Poor................................................ | 118 |
| Selling National Assets.................................................... | 119 |
| Merchant Nation............................................................ | 121 |
| Buy American Preference—Rebuilding our National Pride...................... | 123 |
| American's Government for Sale............................................. | 126 |
| Coming Back to Reality..................................................... | 128 |
| The Unsuccessful War on Drugs.............................................. | 130 |
| Prisons in America......................................................... | 132 |
| Selling America in Congress (Congressional Rotating Doors)................. | 134 |
| Making People Proud of America—Again....................................... | 136 |
| Cures for America's Ills................................................... | 138 |
| American Support for Arts and Culture...................................... | 140 |
| Sales, Advertising, Economic Growth and Health in America.................. | 142 |
| Misleading Pricing......................................................... | 144 |
| American Gun Sales and Sales Organizations................................. | 145 |
| American Political Salesmanship............................................ | 147 |
| Government Role and Economic... |