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Dark money : how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US / Jane Mayer.

Dark money : how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US / Jane Mayer.
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ISBN 9781925321715
Location 320.52 MAY
Author Mayer, Jane (author.).
Title Dark money : how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US / Jane Mayer.
Published Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2016.
©2016.
Collation 449 pages ; 24 cm.
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General Note Jane Mayer is an award-winning staff writer for The New Yorker. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Note 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 Note "In this powerful and meticulously researched work of investigative journalism, 'New Yorker' staff writer Jane Mayer exposes the network of billionaires trying to buy the US electoral system - and succeeding. Led by libertarian industrialists like the Koch brothers, they believe that taxes are a form of tyranny and that government oversight of business is an assault on freedom. Together, they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars influencing politicians and voters, and hijacking American democracy for their own ends. 'Dark money' brilliantly illuminates a shady corner of US politics. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the future of democracy" - Back cover.
Personal Name Koch, David H.,1940-
Koch, Charles G.(Charles de Ganahl),1935-
Subject Corporations -- Political activity
Political activists
Politics and government
Tea Party movement
Conservatism
Tea Party movement -- United States
Political activists -- United States
Conservatism -- United States.
Geographic Name United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-
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