The Koch Brothers were playing a long term game, which started bearing fruit after three decades.

One more mystery is how issues such as climate change became wedge issues after, it seems, almost all politicians, from all sides, agreed it’s an issue until… they didn’t.Īccording to the author two things happen, one was the election of Ronald Reagan, a movement conservative, the other was a campaign by two rich oil men in Kansas who decided to dedicate enormous amount of money to elect conservatives to every level in the American local and federal governments. I’ve read several books about the subject but it’s still a mystery to me. It has always been fascinating to me how politicians manage to convince people to vote against their own best interest. Regardless of your political affiliation, or even if you don’t have one, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer makes a fascinating, informative, and very convincing argument.

If you’re a news / political junky like myself, put this book at the top of your “to read” list. Mayer is a writer for the New Yorker and author of several bestselling nonfiction books. This book is the true representation of billionaires driving politics.Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer is a nonfiction book tracing how rich and powerful people shape the world to fit their image.

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It is one of the “The NewYork Times” 10 best books of the year. The author discusses the Koch family and their political activities with the founders of the American Legislative Exchange Council, along with DeVos and Coors families. And they later become the member of the John Birch Society. Their ancestors made money by building oil refineries in Russia and Germany. Congress, and the American presidency for their own personal interests. The main figures in this book are David Koch and Charles who funds many institutions such as academic institutes, courts, think tanks, statehouses, U.S.

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