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Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right / Jane Mayer.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780385535595
ISBN: 0385535597
Physical Description: xii, 449 pages : chart ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016].
Copyright: ©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 -- Part 1. 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. -- Part 2. 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. -- Part 3. 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.