Kochland by Christopher Leonard (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Kochland by Christopher Leonard Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalisation through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonards Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how the biggest private company in the world became that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A landmark book....A massively reported deep dive into the unparalleled corporate industrial giant Koch Industries....This impressively researched and well-rendered book also serves as a biography of Charles Koch, with Leonard providing an evenhanded treatment of the tycoon. Leonards work is on par with Steve Colls Private Empire and even Ida Tarbells enduring classic The History of the Standard Oil Company. Kirkus Reviews Leonards superb investigations and even-handed, clear-eyed reportage stand out....American capitalism at its most successful and domineering is at the center of this sweeping history of a much-vilified company.Publishers Weekly Leonards intricately developed and extensively researched history of the Koch empire is a colossal corporate biography that sheds important light on this closely guarded enterprise while simultaneously scrutinizing the nefarious underpinnings of American economic policies and practices. Booklist This page-turning exposé reveals the full extent of the Koch brothers influence on American capitalism. Book Riot If you want a crash course in the evolution of postmodern capitalism over the last five decades read Kochland....Leonards study is exhaustive and engaging. New York Journal of Books The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Google, Goldman Sachs and Kraft Foods combined. But very few people have ever heard of Koch Industries because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way. Now, in Kochland, Christopher Leonard has managed what no other journalist has done before: to tell the explosive inside story of how the largest private company in the world became that big. In doing so, Leonard also tells the epic tale of the evolution of corporate America over the last half-century, in all its glory and rapaciousness. Koch is everywhere. It controls the fertilisers at the foundation of our food system. It controls the synthetics that make our diapers and carpets. It controls the chemicals that make our bottles and pipes. It controls the building materials that make our homes and offices. And it controls much of the Wall Street trading in all of these commodities. It makes money at every end of almost every deal. For five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating behind a veil of secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. When Wall Street came calling twenty years ago, trying to take Koch public, Charles Koch said no. Hes a genius businessman: patient with profits, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop an almost a worshipful dedication to free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter. We think of disruption as something that happens in Silicon Valley, but this book will upend your understanding of what disruption really is. Charles Kochs business acumen has made him and his brother David (Koch Industries co-owner) together richer than Bill Gates. But theres a dark side to their story. If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, how we stalled progress on climate change and how corporate America 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, transformed capitalism into something that feels so deeply alienating to many Americans today. Author Biography Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Meat Racket and Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Review Kochland is a dazzling feat of investigative reporting and epic narrative writing, a tour de force that takes the reader deep inside the rise of a vastly powerful family corporation that has come to influence American workers, markets, elections and the very ideas debated in our public square. Leonards work is fair and meticulous, even as it reveals the Kochs as industrial Citizens Kane of our time. -- Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Private EmpireChristopher Leonards visionary, decade-spanning, and heart-rending investigation into the Koch Empire is indispensable not just for understanding the rise of corporate power in America, but for understanding America itself. Leonards book will take its place alongside Chernows Titan and Colls Private Empire as one of the great accounts of American capitalism. -- Jesse Eisinger, author of The Chickenshit ClubChristopher Leonards Kochland is the kind of book that doesnt come along that often – a mind-blowing feat of reporting about a highly secretive organisation. Whats even more amazing is that it seems destined to further convince both sides about the righteousness of their point of view. Those who believe in unfettered free-market capitalism will find much to feast on, while those concerned with the corrosive effects of growth at all costs will find more than enough to gorge on as well. And if the one side will see promise while the other sees peril, both should be able to agree on what this story is really about, which is power – and a terrifying amount of it at that. -- Duff McDonald, New York Times bestselling author of The FirmChristopher Leonard has produced an investigative feat: a hugely readable, entirely original, magisterial work on one of the most important subjects of our time – the weirdly cultish, terrifyingly successful empire built all-but invisibly by the billionaire sphinx Charles Koch. -- Steve LeVine, author of The Oil and the GloryA landmark book....A massively reported deep dive into the unparalleled corporate industrial giant Koch Industries....This impressively researched and well-rendered book also serves as a biography of Charles Koch, with Leonard providing an evenhanded treatment of the tycoon. Leonards work is on par with Steve Colls Private Empire and even Ida Tarbells enduring classic The History of the Standard Oil Company. * Kirkus Reviews *Leonards superb investigations and even-handed, clear-eyed reportage stand out....American capitalism at its most successful and domineering is at the center of this sweeping history of a much-vilified company. * Publishers Weekly *Leonards intricately developed and extensively researched history of the Koch empire is a colossal corporate biography that sheds important light on this closely guarded enterprise while simultaneously scrutinizing the nefarious underpinnings of American economic policies and practices. * Booklist *This page-turning exposé reveals the full extent of the Koch brothers influence on American capitalism. * Book Riot *If you want a crash course in the evolution of postmodern capitalism over the last five decades read Kochland....Leonards study is exhaustive and engaging. * New York Journal of Books * Review Quote Kochland is a dazzling feat of investigative reporting and epic narrative writing, a tour de force that takes the reader deep inside the rise of a vastly powerful family corporation that has come to influence American workers, markets, elections and the very ideas debated in our public square. Leonards work is fair and meticulous , even as it reveals the Kochs as industrial Citizens Kane of our time. Details ISBN1471186997 Author Christopher Leonard Year 2020 ISBN-10 1471186997 ISBN-13 9781471186998 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-07-23 Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 338.7665530973 Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd Pages 704 Language English UK Release Date 2020-07-23 NZ Release Date 2020-07-23 Illustrations 2 charts thru-out AU Release Date 2020-08-18 Alternative 9781471186974 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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