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Shadow network : media, money, and the secret hub of the radical right / Anne Nelson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xix, 394 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781635573190
  • 163557319X
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Contents:
Dramatis personae -- Prologue -- In the beginning: Texas -- The birth of the CNP: Washington -- Lords of the air: the CNP's media empire -- The news hole in the heart of America -- Money people -- Fishers of men: electoral stratagems -- Ideology 101: the CNP's campus partners -- Koch, DeVos, Soros: donors, politics, and pastors -- The Obama challenge -- Data wars -- The art of the deal: New York, June 21, 2016 -- "The Miracle" -- Midterms -- "Democracy in America" -- Epilogue.
Summary: In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this elite club has become a strategic nerve center for channeling money and mobilizing votes behind the scenes. Its secretive membership rolls represent a high-powered roster of fundamentalists, oligarchs, and their allies, from Oliver North, Ed Meese, and Tim LaHaye in the Council's early days to Mike Pence, Tony Perkins, and the DeVos family today. In Shadow Network, award-winning author and media analyst Anne Nelson chronicles this astonishing history and illuminates the coalition's key figures and their tactics. She traces how the collapse of American local journalism laid the foundation for the Council for National Policy's information war and listens in on the hardline broadcasting its members control. And she reveals how the group has collaborated with the Koch brothers to outfit Radical Right organizations with state-of-the-art apps and a shared pool of captured voter data -- outmaneuvering the Democratic Party in a digital arms race whose result has yet to be decided.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Reveals a political trend that threatens both our form of government and our species." - Timothy Snyder, author of ON TYRANNY

"Riveting.... Want to understand how so many Americans turned against truth? Read this book." Nancy Maclean, author of DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS

In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this elite club has become a strategic nerve center for channeling money and mobilizing votes behind the scenes. Its secretive membership rolls represent a high-powered roster of fundamentalists, oligarchs, and their allies, from Oliver North, Ed Meese, and Tim LaHaye in the Council's early days to Kellyanne Conway, Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, and the DeVos and Mercer families today.

In Shadow Network , award-winning author and media analyst Anne Nelson chronicles this astonishing history and illuminates the coalition's key figures and their tactics. She traces how the collapse of American local journalism laid the foundation for the Council for National Policy's information war and listens in on the hardline broadcasting its members control. And she reveals how the group has collaborated with the Koch brothers to outfit Radical Right organizations with state-of-the-art apps and a sharedpool of captured voter data - outmaneuvering the Democratic Party in a digital arms race whose result has yet to be decided.

In a time of stark and growing threats to our most valued institutions and democratic freedoms, Shadow Network is essential reading.

In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this elite club has become a strategic nerve center for channeling money and mobilizing votes behind the scenes. Its secretive membership rolls represent a high-powered roster of fundamentalists, oligarchs, and their allies, from Oliver North, Ed Meese, and Tim LaHaye in the Council's early days to Mike Pence, Tony Perkins, and the DeVos family today. In Shadow Network, award-winning author and media analyst Anne Nelson chronicles this astonishing history and illuminates the coalition's key figures and their tactics. She traces how the collapse of American local journalism laid the foundation for the Council for National Policy's information war and listens in on the hardline broadcasting its members control. And she reveals how the group has collaborated with the Koch brothers to outfit Radical Right organizations with state-of-the-art apps and a shared pool of captured voter data -- outmaneuvering the Democratic Party in a digital arms race whose result has yet to be decided.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-375) and index.

Dramatis personae -- Prologue -- In the beginning: Texas -- The birth of the CNP: Washington -- Lords of the air: the CNP's media empire -- The news hole in the heart of America -- Money people -- Fishers of men: electoral stratagems -- Ideology 101: the CNP's campus partners -- Koch, DeVos, Soros: donors, politics, and pastors -- The Obama challenge -- Data wars -- The art of the deal: New York, June 21, 2016 -- "The Miracle" -- Midterms -- "Democracy in America" -- Epilogue.

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