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Collection: Adult Nonfiction
Call Number: 324.2
Author: Mayer, Jane
Title: Dark money
Remainder of title: the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right /
Summary, etc. note: 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.

International Standard Book Number: 9780385535595 (hbk)
International Standard Book Number: 0385535597 (hbk)
International Standard Book Number: 9780735210332 (large print)
International Standard Book Number: 0735210330 (large print)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780385535601 (ebk)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 0385535600 (ebk)
System control number: (DLC)18854473
System control number: (DLC)2015957180
System control number: (OCoLC)ocn929917321
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: lccopycat
Geographic area code: n-us---
Classification number: JC599.U5
Item number: M373 2016
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 320.520973
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Jane Mayer.
Edition statement: First Edition.
Place of publication: New York
Name of publisher: Doubleday
Date of publication: 2016
: New York :
: Doubleday,
: [2016]
: ?2016
Extent: xii, 449 pages :
Other physical details: chart ;
Dimensions: 25 cm
Accompanying material: hardcover
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General note: Chart on lining papers.
General note: 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.
Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-425) and index.
Formatted contents note: 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.
Source of acquisition: B & T 2/16/17
Purchase price: 29.95
Personal name: Koch, David H.,
Personal name: Koch, Charles G.
Dates associated with a name: 1940-
Dates associated with a name: 1935-
Fuller form of name: (Charles de Ganahl),
Subject: Political activists
Subject: Libertarianism
Subject: Conservatism
Subject: Political culture
Subject: Radicalism
Subject: Corporations
Subject: Corporate speech
General subdivision: Political activity
Geographic subdivision: United States.
Geographic subdivision: United States.
Geographic subdivision: United States.
Geographic subdivision: United States.
Geographic subdivision: United States.
Geographic subdivision: United States.
Geographic subdivision: United States.
Geographic name: United States
General subdivision: Politics and government
Chronological subdivision: 2009-
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