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Mayer, Jane.
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Koch, David H., 1940-
Koch, Charles G. (Charles de Ganahl), 1935-
Libertarianism -- United States.
Conservatism -- United States.
Political action committees -- United States.
Political activists -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
Radicalism -- United States.
Corporations -- Political activity -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-
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Mayer, Jane.
Koch, David H., 1940-
Koch, Charles G. (Charles de Ganahl), 1935-
Libertarianism -- United States.
Conservatism -- United States.
Political action committees -- United States.
Political activists -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
Radicalism -- United States.
Corporations -- Political activity -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-
MARC Display
Dark
money
: the
hidden
history
of the
billionaires
behind
the
rise
of the
radical
right
/ Jane Mayer.
by
Mayer, Jane.
Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2016]
Call #:
320.512 M468d
Subjects
Koch, David H., 1940-
Koch, Charles G. (Charles de Ganahl), 1935-
Libertarianism -- United States.
Conservatism -- United States.
Political action committees -- United States.
Political activists -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
Radicalism -- United States.
Corporations -- Political activity -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-
ISBN:
9780307947901 (1st Anchor Books ed. 2017 : pbk.)
9780385535595 (hc.)
Edition:
First Edition.
Description:
xii, 449 pages : chart ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Chart on lining papers.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-425) and index.
Contents:
The investors -- Weaponizing philanthropy : the war on 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.
Summary:
"A network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views have bankrolled a systematic, step-by-step plan to fundamentally alter the American political system. The network has brought together some of the richest people on the planet. Their core beliefs - that taxes are a form of tyranny; that government oversight of business is an assault on freedom - are sincerely held. But these beliefs also advance their personal and corporate interests: Many of their companies have run afoul of federal pollution, worker safety, securities, and tax laws. The chief figures in the network are Charles and David Koch, whose father made his fortune in part by building oil refineries in Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany. The patriarch later was a founding member of the John Birch Society, whose politics were so
radical
it believed Dwight Eisenhower was a communist. The brothers were schooled in a political philosophy that asserted the only role of government is to provide security and to enforce property rights. When libertarian ideas proved decidedly unpopular with voters, the Koch brothers and their allies chose another path. If they pooled their vast resources, they could fund an interlocking array of organizations that could work in tandem to influence and ultimately control academic institutions, think tanks, the courts, statehouses, Congress, and, they hoped, the presidency. Richard Mellon Scaife, the mercurial heir to banking and oil fortunes, had the brilliant insight that most of their political activities could be written off as tax-deductible "philanthropy." These organizations were given innocuous names such as Americans for Prosperity. Funding sources were
hidden
whenever possible. This process reached its apotheosis with the allegedly populist Tea Party movement, abetted mightily by the Citizens United decision - a case conceived of by legal advocates funded by the network. Mayer documents instances in which people affiliated with these groups hired private detectives to impugn whistle-blowers, journalists, and even government investigators. And their efforts have been remarkably successful. Libertarian views on taxes and regulation, once far outside the mainstream and still rejected by most Americans, are ascendant in the majority of state governments, the Supreme Court, and Congress. Meaningful environmental, labor, finance, and tax reforms have been stymied. In a taut and utterly convincing narrative, the author traces the byzantine trail of the billions of dollars spent by the network and provides vivid portraits of the colorful figures
behind
the new American oligarchy. Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988, with Doyle McManus, Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, with Jill Abramson, and The
Dark
Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals"--Provided by publisher.
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