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The Resource Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right, Jane Mayer, (electronic resource)

Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right, Jane Mayer, (electronic resource)

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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 rise 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, foremost among them Charles and David Koch. 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..
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Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right
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Dark money
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the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right
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Jane Mayer
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eng
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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 rise 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, foremost among them Charles and David Koch. 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..
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IDEBK
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320.51/2
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index present
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JC599.U5
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M373 2016eb
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non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right, Jane Mayer, (electronic resource)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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text
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txt
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rdacontent
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ocn935638944
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unknown
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First edition.
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1 online resource (xii, 449 pages)
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online
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9780385535601
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computer
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rdamedia
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c
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remote
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  • 889475
  • F4444C32-1D8F-4943-9472-F6759D92E135
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(OCoLC)935638944
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Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right, Jane Mayer, (electronic resource)
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Publication
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This is an OverDrive title
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
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cr
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn935638944
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 449 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780385535601
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
c
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
  • 889475
  • F4444C32-1D8F-4943-9472-F6759D92E135
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(OCoLC)935638944

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