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Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right

Title
Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right / Jane Mayer.
Author
Mayer, Jane
Publication
  • New York : Doubleday, [2016]
  • ©2016

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xii, 449 pages; 24 cm
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
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-425) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 16-3376
ISBN
  • 9780385535595
  • 0385535597
LCCN
2015957180
OCLC
929917321
Author
Mayer, Jane, author.
Title
Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right / Jane Mayer.
Publisher
New York : Doubleday, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-425) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-3376
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