Dark Money: How a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (865 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071JMR27X |
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| Number of Pages | : | 475 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement. One of The New York Times' Top 10 Books of 2016. But these beliefs also advance their personal and corporate interest
College Stealth said Mildly Depressing. This book is a hard read; not because of Lexile score interest, but because it raises a huge warning flag with regards to some of the funding that has been going into the recent elections. I got the Kindle edition of this book at 11 C.S.T. and stayed up all night reading it, it took about seven hours. I’ve made it a point for th. Many surprises in this superb expose Mal Warwick The Koch brothers, Charles and David, get a lot of attention from political observers and, increasingly, from the public. No wonder. The fortune they possess together is greater than those of Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Warren Buffet, and other private individuals who are often characterized as the richest people in the world. But it&rsq. "Jane Mayer nails it again, we'll see how Koch responds this time" according to Connor Gibson. This book is rapidly making waves, after the New York Times and Washington Post worked with author Jane Mayer to reveal Koch Industries' history building a major refinery for none other than Adoph Hitler, just after he became Chancellor of Germany.But the sensational Nazi connection was just the easy part, and Koch is among several ol