TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mayer,Jane
TI  - Dark money: the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right 
SN  - 9780385535595 (hbk)
AV  - JC599.U5 M373 2016
U1  - 320.520973 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Koch, David H.,
KW  - Koch, Charles G.
KW  - Political activists
KW  - United States
KW  - Libertarianism
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Radicalism
KW  - Corporations
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Corporate speech
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2009-
N1  - Chart on lining papers; Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-425) and index; 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
N2  - 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; 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
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