![]() ![]() Self-interest, Mayer meticulously documents, played a central role. ![]() More than just a profile of those families and their influence in shaping policy, the pages also serve as a primer on the historical roots of the 501(c)(3) non-profit system itself and how and why plutocratic interests pushed the U.S. Mayer devoted some 60 pages of the 380-page tome to the three families. If those family names sound familiar to DeSmog readers, they should: we have a profile in our database for Scaife and have written fairly extensively about Olin and Bradley. in the years following the Cold War until present day. ![]() The shenanigans of the “Kochtopus” have garnered most of the headlines - including here - pertaining to reviews of New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer’s new book, Dark Money.īut the Koch Brothers and Koch Industries’ right-wing family foundation network are far from the only big money influencers featured in the must-read book which has jumped to #4 on the Best Sellers list at .Įnter the Scaife, Olin and Bradley family fortunes, all three of which have served as key nodes through which the right-wing have tried to reshape the public policy landscape within (and beyond) the U.S. ![]()
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