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

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?The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big government" led to the rise 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, foremost among them Charles and David Koch. 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...

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ISBN: 0735210330
ISBN: 0385535597
ISBN: 9780385535601
ISBN: 0385535600
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 449 pages)
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electronic resource
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016]