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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160341703321

Autore

Mayer Jane

Titolo

Dark Money : The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right / / Jane Mayer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Doubleday, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-385-53560-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (483 pages)

Disciplina

371

Soggetti

Libertarianism - United States

Conservatism - United States

Political activists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.