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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 The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against big government led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement. But as Jane Mayer shows in this powerful, meticulously reported history, a network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views 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 beliefsthat taxes are a form of tyranny; that government oversight of business is an assault on freedomare 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 Stalins Russia and Hitlers 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 decisiona case conceived of by legal advocates funded by the network. The political operatives the network employs are disciplined, smart, and at times ruthless. 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. Jane Mayer spent five years conducting hundreds of interviews-including with several sources within the network-and scoured public records, private papers, and court proceedings in reporting this book. In a taut and utterly convincing narrative, she 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. Dark Money is a book that must be read by anyone who cares about the future of American democracy. 5 Books That Billionaires Don't Want You to Read Inccom Subtitle: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right Author: Jane Mayer Summary: Explains how a network of exceedingly wealthy Powells Books The Worlds Largest Independent Bookstore Powell's Blog Q&As Powell's Q&A: Edan Lepucki Author of 'Woman No 17' by Edan Lepucki Woman No 17 is a novel about women motherhood art sex drinking the Excerpt: 'DARK MONEY: The Hidden History of the Excerpt: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right The New Yorkers Jane Mayer on the billionaires supporting Mercer is the subject of Jane Mayers latest profile in the New Yorker Mayer is a longtime writer for the magazine whose work chronicling the Koch Feudalism aka American Capitalism by David F - Mind Mined MISLEAD VICTIMIZE The Hidden Social Order (Part 1) The Society We Can See In the 50's the United States appeared to hold the formula for prosperity Business News Personal Finance and Money News - ABC News Find the latest business news on Wall Street jobs and the economy the housing market personal finance and money investments and much more on ABC News Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind Who are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today? From the bestselling author of The Dark Side an electrifying work of Jane Mayer "Dark Money" - YouTube Unsubscribe from Politics and Prose? politics-prosecom/book/97 In her fourth book Mayer draws on court records extensive interviews and Jane Mayer - Wikipedia Jane Meredith Mayer (born 1955) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995 In recent years she has written Table of Contents - March 10 2016 The New York Review The Koch Brothers New Brand Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
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