If you are not from her home state of Minnesota, your first inkling that Sen. Amy Klobuchar is a serious lawmaker may have come during Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings in 2018. The hearings were a circus. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse spun conspiracy theories about dark money. Sen. Patrick Leahy demanded to know who hacked his email in 2001. Protesters in Halloween costumes howled from the gallery. But Klobuchar asked Kavanaugh to defend two antitrust rulings he had made as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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Three years later, she expands on the topic that has been a significant focus of hers since she was elected to the Senate in 2006. Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age is a tour of the history of the battle between monopolies and government that shows the onetime presidential candidate’s deep knowledge of a subject that has recently reemerged into the legal and political mainstream. Following on Tim Wu’s 2018 The Curse of Bigness and Matthew Stoller’s 2019 Goliath, Klobuchar’s work is the latest to examine the growing size, concentration, and power of businesses and what it means for the American people.