6/23/2023 0 Comments Jane mayer book![]() And you can see that our Congress has been captured by their interests and those of the fossil-fuel companies, so it will do nothing about global warming. Americans have gotten less certain on this issue, as the rest of the world has been going in the opposite direction. You can trace something like $25 million from the Koch family and their foundations, just over a three-year period, to organizations that deny the reality of global warming. And you can see that they’ve managed to change public opinion on the subject. One of their greatest accomplishments is in funding complete confusion on the subject of global warming in America. You write that the Koch brothers have “used their fortune to impose their minority views on the majority.” What have they accomplished in that respect? It later made the New York Times Book Review editors list of '10 Best Books of 2008' 2 and was nominated for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction. Mayer recently spoke to Rolling Stone about how America looks different today because of this network, how the Kochs are trying to influence the next generation, and how they tried to smear her reputation during the reporting process. The book became a best-seller in non-fiction hardcover in the United States, with its author Jane Mayer booked on various news programs for interviews. ![]() ![]() New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer spent some five years researching the Koch brothers and the vast network of right-wing, ultra-wealthy donors of which they’re a part. In her new book, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Mayer lays out how this relatively small group of very rich Americans has managed to make views that once seemed radical part of mainstream American thought and life. ![]()
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