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Short overview about this book :
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. But as
Jane Mayer shows in this powerful, meticulously reported history, a
network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views
bankrolled a systematic, step-by-step plan to fundamentally alter the
American political system.
The network has brought together
some of the richest people on the planet. 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, whose
father made his fortune in part by building oil refineries in Stalin’s
Russia and Hitler’s Germany. The patriarch later was a founding member
of the John Birch Society, whose politics were so radical it believed
Dwight Eisenhower was a communist. 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. Richard Mellon Scaife, the mercurial heir to
banking and oil fortunes, had the brilliant insight that most of their
political activities could be written off as tax-deductible
“philanthropy.”
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.
The political operatives the network employs are disciplined,
smart, and at times ruthless. Mayer documents instances in which people
affiliated with these groups hired private detectives to impugn
whistle-blowers, journalists, and even government investigators. 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 in reporting this book. In a taut and utterly
convincing narrative, she traces the byzantine trail of the billions of
dollars spent by the network and provides vivid portraits of the
colorful figures behind the new American oligarchy.
Dark Money is a book that must be read by anyone who cares about the future of American democracy.
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