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RECRUITING CONSPIRATORS
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
They were represented by a handful of front groups, including the American Family Business Institute, which strove to cast the tax break as necessary to preserve family farms. Unfortunately, in 2001, the group couldn’t find a single family farm put out of business by the estate tax. After Hurricane Katrina, the same group scoured the country to fin
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
A key leader in this aspect of New Right activism is Mike Cernovich.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
In October 2015, the Clinton campaign apparently uses PBS’s Judy Woodruff to “put the news out” that Hillary intends to reverse her support of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. To frame the coverage in a way most favorable to Clinton, the campaign arranges for Woodruff to break the “news” in an interview with Clinton, an
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
A politician or public official could accept a legal fee or an insurance premium from Triborough with assurance that no reporter or reformer would ever be able to discover that he had done so.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Ironically, the organization modeled itself on the Communist Party. Stealth and subterfuge were endemic. Membership was kept secret. Fighting “dirty” was justified internally, as necessary to combat the imputed treacherousness of the enemy. Welch “explicitly sought to use the same methods” he attributed to the Communists, “manipulation, deceit, and
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
hard-bitten
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
The reporting