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This is the most exhaustive, best researched, best-written history of the monied families that have built the Radical Right into a juggernaut that has turned back the clock on social progress in this country. The Koch brothers are not only the heart of that enterprise, their efforts dwarf those of everyone else, and for that reason they are at the center of Mayer's exceptional investigative report. From the Koch family's early roots as industrial supporters of fascism prior to World War II, to their influence in killing progress on climate change, in helping warp the election system via the Citizen's United decision, and through their influence on virtually every important social and political struggle of the last forty years via a network of front groups and an underground river of cash, Mayer provides a frame-by-frame analysis, a kind of Zapruder film, showing exactly how the brothers Koch have all but succeeded in assassinating a once great democracy and enshrining an ideology that puts profit ahead of human lives and the future of the planet. All that - AND it's a great read.