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100	1		_aMayer, Jane, _eauthor. _9114617
245	1	0	_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	0	_gThe _tinvestors -- _tWeaponizing philanthropy: the war of ideas, 1970-2008. _tRadicals: A Koch family history ; _gThe _thidden hand: Richard Mellon Scaife ; _tBeachheads: John M. Olin and the Bradley brothers ; _gThe _tKoch method: Free-market mayhem ; _gThe _tKochtopus: Free-market machine -- _tSecret sponsors: covert operations, 2009-2010. Boots on the ground ; _tTea time ; _gThe _tfossils ; _tMoney is speech: The long road to "Citizens United" ; _gThe _tshellacking: Dark money's midterm debut, 2010 -- _tPrivatizing politics: total combat, 2011-2014. _gThe _tspoils: Plundering Congress ; _tMother of all wars: The 2012 setback ; _gThe _tStates: Gaining ground ; _tSelling 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	1	0	_aKoch, Charles G. _q(Charles de Ganahl), _d1935- _9249958
600	1	0	_aKoch, David H., _d1940- _9249959
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