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Dark Money

Autor Jane Mayer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2017

Urgența înțelegerii mecanismelor din spatele Dark Money nu a fost niciodată mai mare; trăim într-o eră în care deciziile politice majore par tot mai deconectate de voința populară. Considerăm că această lucrare este esențială pentru a demonta mitul conform căruia ascensiunea conservatorismului radical în SUA a fost o mișcare pur populistă. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care Jane Mayer documentează modul în care o elită restrânsă a utilizat averi colosale pentru a rescrie regulile jocului democratic. Ca și Kurt Andersen în Evil Geniuses, autoarea distilează experiență reală în principii acționabile de analiză, demonstrând cum idei politice considerate odinioară marginale au devenit norma prin finanțarea strategică a unor grupuri de reflecție și instituții academice. Merită menționat că Mayer nu se limitează la teorii, ci urmărește traseul banilor prin labirinturi birocratice complexe, oferind portrete vii ale figurilor din spatele acestei noi oligarhii americane. Față de lucrarea sa anterioară, The Dark Side, unde analiza politicile de securitate națională, în Dark Money Mayer își extinde viziunea asupra întregului ecosistem economic și legislativ. Cititorul va învăța cum „filantropia” a fost transformată într-o armă politică și cum grupuri precum cele conduse de frații Koch au reușit să blocheze reforme vitale de mediu sau fiscale, protejându-și interesele sub masca libertății individuale. Este o cronică a modului în care puterea financiară brută poate paraliza mecanismele statului de drept.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780307947901
ISBN-10: 0307947904
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 135 x 199 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Anchor Books

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Despre autor

Jane Mayer este o jurnalistă de investigație americană de renume, scriind pentru The New Yorker din 1995. Este recunoscută pentru curajul de a aborda subiecte sensibile legate de putere și influență, fiind finalistă a National Book Critics Circle Award pentru The Dark Side. În Dark Money, Mayer își folosește experiența vastă în jurnalismul politic pentru a expune rețelele de finanțare care subminează procesele democratice, consolidându-și reputația de observator critic al elitei americane.


Notă biografică

Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. She co-authored Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988, with Doyle McManus, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, with Jill Abramson, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of The New York Times’s Top 10 Books of the Year and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Goldsmith Book Prize, the Edward Weintal Prize, the Ridenhour Prize, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For her reporting at The New Yorker, Mayer has been awarded the John Chancellor Award, the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the I. F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence presented by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Mayer lives in Washington, D.C.

Descriere scurtă

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, 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?
The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big government" led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement. But 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.
The network has brought together some of the richest people on the planet. Their core beliefs--that taxes are a form of tyranny; that government oversight of business is an assault on freedom--are sincerely held. But these beliefs also advance their personal and corporate interests: Many of their companies have run afoul of federal pollution, worker safety, securities, and tax laws.
The chief figures in the network are Charles and David Koch, whose father made his fortune in part by building oil refineries in Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany. The patriarch later was a founding member of the John Birch Society, whose politics were so radical it believed Dwight Eisenhower was a communist. The brothers were schooled in a political philosophy that asserted the only role of government is to provide security and to enforce property rights.
When libertarian ideas proved decidedly unpopular with voters, the Koch brothers and their allies chose another path. If they pooled their vast resources, they could fund an interlocking array of organizations that could work in tandem to influence and ultimately control academic institutions, think tanks, the courts, statehouses, Congress, and, they hoped, the presidency. Richard Mellon Scaife, the mercurial heir to banking and oil fortunes, had the brilliant insight that most of their political activities could be written off as tax-deductible "philanthropy."
These organizations were given innocuous names such as Americans for Prosperity. Funding sources were hidden whenever possible. This process reached its apotheosis with the allegedly populist Tea Party movement, abetted mightily by the Citizens United decision--a case conceived of by legal advocates funded by the network.
The political operatives the network employs are disciplined, smart, and at times ruthless. Mayer documents instances in which people affiliated with these groups hired private detectives to impugn whistle-blowers, journalists, and even government investigators. And their efforts have been remarkably successful. Libertarian views on taxes and regulation, once far outside the mainstream and still rejected by most Americans, are ascendant in the majority of state governments, the Supreme Court, and Congress. Meaningful environmental, labor, finance, and tax reforms have been stymied.
Jane Mayer spent five years conducting hundreds of interviews-including with several sources within the network-and scoured public records, private papers, and court proceedings in reporting this book. In a taut and utterly convincing narrative, she traces the byzantine trail of the billions of dollars spent by the network and provides vivid portraits of the colorful figures behind the new American oligarchy.
Dark Money is a book that must be read by anyone who cares about the future of American democracy.