'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. Leonard's work is on par with Steve Coll's
Private Empire and even Ida Tarbell's enduring classic The History
of the Standard Oil Company.' Kirkus Reviews 'Leonard's 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 'Leonard's 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 expose 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....Leonard's 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.
He's 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 Koch's business acumen has made him
and his brother David (Koch Industries' co-owner) together richer
than Bill Gates. But there's 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.
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