“In Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Jane Mayer, a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, provides an extraordinarily well-documented account of the influential, interlocking organizations with innocuous names created by the Koch brothers.
Ms. Mayer lays out in detail the activities of the Kochs and other right wing plutocrats, including John M. Olin, Lynde and Harry Bradley, Richard DeVos, and Richard Mellon Scaife, the late publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. According to Ms. Mayer’s account, Mr. Scaife, the Pittsburgh-based heir to a vast banking and oil fortune, realized that political activities by philanthropic foundations could be written off as tax deductible ‘philanthropy’ as long as the activities weren’t the primary purpose of the institution…”
Jane Mayer’s “Dark Money ”has made news partly because it seems Mayer was investigated by the book’s subjects. https://t.co/Tg2VUFEnb6
— New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) January 30, 2016
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