Kyle Harrison
to-read
Dark Money
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
- Author
- Jane Mayer
- Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 464
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Mayer’s reporting on the donor network — Koch and others — that spent decades building the institutions, think tanks and campus programs that moved American politics rightward.
Where I saw it: Shown on the power-empire-and-guns shelf in the Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach store account’s BookTok video (@bnhuntingtonbeach) — “our personal syllabus for this semester as we say goodbye to tiktok” — saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Video: https://www.tiktok.com/@bnhuntingtonbeach/video/7461057163067165982
Connections
- Philanthropy — the vehicle.
- Democracy — the system being bought into.