Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. She co-authored Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988, with Doyle McManus, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, with Jill Abramson, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of The New York Times's Top 10 Books of the Year and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Goldsmith Book Prize, the Edward Weintal Prize, the Ridenhour Prize, the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For her reporting at The New Yorker, Mayer has been awarded the John Chancellor Award, the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the I. F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence presented by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Mayer lives in Washington, D.C.
ONE OF NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2016 A
Washington Post Notable Book of 2016 "Mayer is. . . a writer whose
reporting can leave a reader breathless. . . . I urge you to read
Dark Money."
--Bill Moyers "Jane Mayer's Dark Money is utterly brilliant and
chilling -- no matter how much you think you already know. . . .
Read it!"
--Naomi Klein, bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise
of Disaster Capitalism and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs
the Climate "Jane Mayer's Dark Money. . . is absolutely necessary
reading for anyone who wants to make sense of our politics. Lay
aside the endless punditry about Donald's belligerence or Hillary's
ambition; Mayer is telling the epic story of America in our time.
It is a triumph of investigative reporting, perhaps not surprising
for a journalist who has won most of the awards her profession has
to offer.... She's a pro, and she's given the world a full
accounting of what had been a shadowy and largely unseen force. . .
. Remarkable."
--The New York Review of Books "The book is written in
straightforward and largely unemotional prose, but it reads as if
conceived in quiet anger. Mayer believes that the Koch brothers and
a small number of allied plutocrats have essentially hijacked
American democracy, using their money not just to compete with
their political adversaries, but to drown them out. . . . Dark
Money emerges as an impressively reported and well-documented work.
. . . The importance of Dark Money [flows] 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. . . .
She makes a formidable argument."
---From the cover of the New York Times Book Review
"Revelatory. . .persuasive, timely and necessary. . . . Only the
most thoroughly documented, compendious account could do justice to
the Kochs' bizarre and Byzantine family history and the scale and
scope of their influence."
---The New York Times
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