How Billionaire Libertarians Control the American Political System

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 20, 2016

Investigative journalist and staff writer for The New Yorker Jane Mayer spent spent five years conducting hundreds of interviews and examining records to uncover how billionaires with strong libertarian views have worked to fundamentally alter the American political system. In Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, she reveals how the Koch brothers and others have shaped policy and legislation. 

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