Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

"Long before “rigged” elections were a daily (albeit false) refrain, Charles and David Koch, along with their octopuslike political organizations, were wielding multimillion-dollar influence from secret hotel conference rooms and clandestine bank accounts. For good or bad (and in Jane Mayer’s telling, more than bad), the Koch brothers transformed American politics — elevating their libertarian ideology from fringe to mainstream. Dark Money takes you inside those back rooms and narrates — in clear, readable prose — the Koch brothers’ 30-year conservative crusade."

""Dark Money" … explained things that I didn't understand, though I knew some of it at a cursory level."