| DARK MONEY The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right Jane Mayer New York: Doubleday, January 2016 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-385-53559-5 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-385-53559-7 | 449pp. | HC | $29.95 | |
| Page 35: | " 'I was closer to David because he was better at everything [than the others]', Charles told Fame, bluntly." |
| Are the names of the brothers interchanged here? It seems like David, described as a sidekick to Charles, should be praising him this way. |
| Page 92: | " 'If there was a single event that galvanized conservative donors to try to wrest control of higher education in America, it might have been the uprising at Cornell University..." |
| Grammar: "wrest" is a transitive verb. S/B "capture control of higher education in America". |
| Page 95: | "In 1954, the company went public and merged with the Mathieson Chemical Corporation, doubling in size, diversifying its operations, and eventually changing its name to the Olin Corporation." |
| Wikipedia says, "Olin Industries and Mathieson Chemical merged in 1954 to form the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation." |
| Page 145: | "Lewis's Investigative Reporting Workshop spent a year in 2013 culling through the Kochs' financial records..." |
| Word choice: S/B "combing through". |
| Page 156: | "John David, an economics professor at West Virginia University Tech who witnessed the school's transformation..." |
| Word order: S/B "West Virginia Tech University". |
| Page 210: | "It was later revealed that some of the payments for his papers were marked as 'deliverables' by the fossil fuel companies." |
| It was the papers that were marked as deliverables, in accordance with aerospace industry practice. |
| Page 219: | "With lethal timing, an unidentified saboteur had hacked expertly into the University of East Anglia's Web site and uploaded thousands of internal e-mails..." |
| Terminology: S/B "downloaded". |
| Page 368: | "A longtime associate who declined to be named, exclaimed, 'He has been trying since the 1970s to get his Libertarian Revolution going!' " |
| Missing comma: S/B "associate, who". |
| Page 373: | "His call to close the carried-interest tax loophole, and talk of the ultrarich not paying its share, as well as..." |
| Number error: S/B "their". |
| Page 377: | "Much as they had achieved by 2015, there was still a major item on the Kochs' shopping list: the White House." |
| Missing word: S/B "As much". |
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