Dark money : how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US /: how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jane Mayer.
• Authors: Mayer, Jane
• Contents: The investors -- Weaponizing philanthropy : the war on ideas, 1970-2008. Radicals : a Koch family history ; The hidden hand : Richard Mellon Scaife ; Beachheads : John M. Olin and the Bradley brothers ; The Koch method : free-market mayhem ; The Kochtopus : free-market machine -- Secret sponsors : covert operations, 2009-2010. Boots on the ground ; Tea time ; The fossils ; Money is speech : the long road to "Citizens United" ; The shellacking : dark money's midterm debut, 2010 -- Privatizing politics : total combat, 2011-2014. The spoils : plundering Congress ; Mother of all wars : the 2012 setback ; The States : gaining ground ; Selling the new Koch : a better battle plan.
• Publisher Details: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (464 pages)
• Subjects: 320.520973; Tea Party movement -- United States; Political activists -- United States; Conservatism -- United States; Corporations -- Political activity -- United States; Conservatism; Corporations -- Political activity; Political activists; Politics and government; Tea Party movement; Tea-Party-Bewegung; Konservativismus; Politik; Einfluss; United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017; United States; USA
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781925307801; 1925307808
• Related ISBNs: 9781925321715
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