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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

  On this edition of Your Call, Christopher Leonard will discuss his new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

Leonard says if you want to understand how unions were killed, how the income divide widened, how climate change progress stalled, and how corporate America came to have so much influence in the US, you have to understand the story Koch industries, one of the largest private companies in the world. 

Guest:

Christopher Leonard, author of Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

Web Resources:

NY Times: David Koch, Billionaire Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement Dies at 79

New Yorker: “Kochland” Examines the Koch Brothers’ Early, Crucial Role in Climate-Change Denial