From WSJbooks: From “Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America” to “Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet,” here are this year's best books on politics.
The fact that Jane Mayer’s 2016 book, “Dark Money,” is still revered among smart liberal people is a testament to the power of wishful thinking.
The book’s thesis—that a few allegedly “conservative” billionaires, especially Charles and David Koch, were manipulating American democracy for their own ends—was already refuted by reality before the book appeared: The Kochs did everything they could, and failed, to defeat Barack Obama in 2012. And four years later they pointedly did not back Donald Trump, whose victorious campaign spent substantially less money than that of his opponent. A better book on the Kochs was badly...
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