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050 00 $aJC599.U5$bM373 2016
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100 1 $aMayer, Jane,$eauthor.
245 10 $aDark money :$bthe hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right /$cJane Mayer.
250 $aFirst Edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c[2016]
264 4 $c©2016
300 $axii, 449 pages :$bchart ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aChart on lining papers.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 381-425) and index.
505 0 $aThe investors -- 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 -- 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 -- The spoils: Plundering Congress -- Mother of all wars: The 2012 setback -- The States: Gaining ground -- Selling the new Koch: A better battle plan.
520 $aWhy 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 Jane Mayer argues 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. 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. 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. 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 decision -- a case conceived of by legal advocates funded by the network. 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 to trace the byzantine trail of the billions of dollars spent and to provide vivid portraits of the colorful figures behind the new American oligarchy.
600 10 $aKoch, Charles G.$q(Charles de Ganahl),$d1935-
600 10 $aKoch, David H.,$d1940-
650 0 $aPolitical activists$zUnited States.
650 0 $aTea Party movement.
650 0 $aLibertarianism$zUnited States.
650 0 $aConservatism$zUnited States.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aRadicalism$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCorporations$xPolitical activity$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCorporate speech$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2009-2017.
852 00 $bmil$hJC599.U5$iM373 2016