Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America - Christopher Leonard
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Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America.
The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading in all these commodities. But few people know much about Koch Industries and that’s because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way.
For five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. He’s a genius businessman: patient with earnings, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop a reverence for free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter. These strategies have made him and his brother David together richer than Bill Gates.
But there’s another side to this story. If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, stalled progress on climate change, and how our corporations bought the influence industry, all you have to do is read this book.
Seven years in the making, Kochland reads like a true-life thriller, with larger-than-life characters driving the battles on every page. The book tells the ambitious tale of how one private company consolidated power over half a century—and how in doing so, it helped transform capitalism into something that feels deeply alienating to many Americans today.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 5/5
September 1st, 2019
DanielGlad Can’t hear the Koch defenders mumbling.
Get the Koch dick out your mouths.
September 1st, 2019
Surely “Koch dick” is tautologous?
Not certain how “Secret” all of this can be, given that these sinister ministers feature in virtually every sweat-stained internet conspiracy ever regurgitated.
Anyway, the book sounds like it takes the balanced, impartial approach, so that’s to be welcomed. Thanx banksy (who are you, really?)
September 1st, 2019
While I admit I haven’t read this one yet, and the author might have some facts correct, but ANYTIME someone writes a book about rich Republican businessmen, and then fails to write the same about George Soros (the rich Democratic businessman, then I suspect the author will be one-sided all the way.
September 2nd, 2019
@MarauderMan ?? So, you can’t write a book about, e.g., Stalin, unless you also write a book about Hitler? Trying to work out your logic here; failing.
Why not apply the same principle to those books about how the Clintons run a murder cartel, or Obama is really the son of Osama bin Laden. Have any of them written about Trump’s actual crimes and scandals? Do you demand they do that before you read them?
You know how many years it can take to research and write a book like this? Yet you dismiss it sight unseen because it doesn’t mention your bogeyman. As for “haven’t read it yet”, tell me have you ever read a book that challenged any of your preconceptions all the way through?
September 2nd, 2019
One evil money grubbing billionaire republiCON down, one to go.
September 2nd, 2019
I can understand MarauderMan’s sentiment. I wouldn’t be surprised if Antifa types suspected my exposé on Soros without my admitting something like it was wrong of these guys to suppress the results of the Pepsi challenge for so long. Suspecting an author of being right or left leaning is more of a valid concern for current affairs compared to works on the long dead where you would not expect the author to have as much skin in the game.
September 2nd, 2019
A lot of these slanted epics, concerning George Soros, Trump, Obama or the Kochs - whoever the internet-villain du jour happens to be - don’t necessarily take years to produce. Although it might boost credibility for publishers & authors to heroically claim that this was the case.
In reality, sometimes all they require is a laptop, an internet connection & a lethal dose of illuminating bias. Of course, this won’t be the angle taken in the promotion of the latest “Trump/Obama is worse than Stalin, Hitler and Mao” opulent opus.
With regard to people avoiding books & ideas that might challenge their comforting preconceptions; it’s correct to observe that this seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Pervasive across the spectrum of extravagant ignorance.
September 4th, 2019
Very even-handed account of corporate corruption invading political systems. Koch’s dress themselves up in libertarian rhetoric but very obvious from this how they distort systems to their advantage using power of $$$.
Like Trump, I’m reminded this is not exceptional under capitalism — a system built on greed leads to the victory of the greediest & most conniving. Trump brute-forces is and Koch finesses it, but it works out the same.
Time to make wealth illegal! Max paycaps, plz, & money out of politics.
September 5th, 2019
The psychotic mass-murderers responsible for the deaths of 1+ billion people…
August 27th, 2023
Thnx
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