Bibliograph

Dark money, the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right, Jane Mayer

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Dark money, the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right, Jane Mayer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-425) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dark money

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

929917321

Responsibility statement

Jane Mayer

Sub title

the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right

Summary

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? --Publisher

Table Of 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

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