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Nov 2017: Dark Money

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Non-Fiction suggested by Toni

from Amazon – Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why 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? … 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.