‘The importance of Dark Money does not flow from any explosive new revelation, but from its scope and perspective … It is not easy to uncover the inner workings of an essentially secretive political establishment. Mayer has come as close to doing it as anyone is likely to come anytime soon.’
Alan Ehrenhalt, The New York Times Book Review
‘Persuasive, timely and necessary.’
The New York Times
‘Utterly brilliant and chilling — no matter how much you think you already know … Read it!’
Naomi Klein, bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine, and This Changes Everything
‘Dark Money is almost too good for its own good … [t]he story is so outrageous it should make any citizen want to go out and do something about it.’
Los Angeles Review of Books
‘Mayer is one of the nation’s best investigative journalists, and she is writing in the muckraking tradition of Ida Tarbell. Readers who believe that money and politics make for a toxic brew will share Mayer’s anger, which animates every page of Dark Money.’
Washington Independent Review of Books
‘Meticulously researched and elegantly written.’
John Keane, Sydney Morning Herald
‘Political journalism at its best, an epic and terrifying story that grips the reader like a Stephen King thriller.’
A.M. Homes, The Observer
‘A terrifying insight into how 21st-century politics works, and a great lesson in how to write non-fiction.’
George Monbiot, The Guardian
‘Indispensable.’
Charles Kaiser, The Guardian
‘[P]acked with revelations … [G]limpses of the rich and out of touch that are nothing short of dumbfounding.’
San Francisco Chronicle
‘A must-read for those seeking to understand how Washington became a corporatocracy.’
New Internationalist
‘A chilling book’
Times Higher Education
‘Jane Mayer … is, quite simply, one of the very few utterly invaluable journalists this country has.’
Esquire
‘[A] comprehensive history … Stunning.’
Salon
‘Mayer is … a writer whose reporting can leave a reader breathless … I urge you to read Dark Money.’
Bill Moyers
‘Dark Money piles up facts and anecdotes to support its central thesis: the evasion by the very rich of any obligation to rise above self-interest and serve the public interest … The billionaires do all the mischief they can, and Jane Mayer, in this brave and resourceful book, has numbered their abuses with admirable pertinacity.’
David Bromwich, The Nation
‘[A]n extraordinarily well-documented account of the influential, interlocking organisations with innocuous names created by the Koch brothers.’
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
‘With such turmoil on the right wing of American politics, reading Dark Money is like reading the first chapter of what may be a great political page-turner.’
Chicago Tribune
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