02333nam 2200469 450 991016034170332120240131172113.00-385-53560-0(CKB)3710000001025465(MiAaPQ)EBC6108210(Au-PeEL)EBL6108210(OCoLC)935638944(EXLCZ)99371000000102546520240131d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDark Money The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right /Jane MayerFirst edition.New York, New York :Doubleday,[2016]©20161 online resource (483 pages)0-385-53559-7 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.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.LibertarianismUnited StatesConservatismUnited StatesPolitical activistsUnited StatesLibertarianismConservatismPolitical activists371Mayer Jane1248176MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910160341703321Dark Money2893105UNINA