Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right / Jane Mayer.
A popular uprising against "big government" led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement. But Mayer shows that a network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views bankrolled a systematic, step-by-step plan to fundamentally alter the American political system. Their core beliefs-- that taxes are a form of tyranny; that government oversight of business is an assault on freedom-- are sincerely held. The chief figures in the network are Charles and David Koch. Mayer traces the trail of the billions of dollars spent by their network, and provides vivid portraits of the colorful figures behind the new American oligarchy.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385535595
- ISBN: 0385535597
- Physical Description: xii, 449 pages : chart ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2016.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Chart on lining papers.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-425) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The investors -- Weaponizing philanthropy : the war of ideas, 1970-2008. Radicals : a Koch family history ; The hidden hand : Richard Mellon Scaife ; Beachheads : John M. Olin and the Bradley brothers ; The Koch method : free-market mayhem ; The Kochtopus : free-market machine -- Secret sponsors : covert operations, 2009-2010. Boots on the ground ; Tea time ; The fossils ; Money is speech : the long road to "Citizens United" ; The shellacking : dark money's midterm debut, 2010 -- Privatizing politics : total combat, 2011-2014. The spoils : plundering Congress ; Mother of all wars : the 2012 setback ; The States : gaining ground ; Selling the new Koch : a better battle plan.
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Political culture > United States.
Radicalism > United States.
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United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
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