Shadow network: media, money, and the secret hub of the radical right 9781635573190, 163557319X

In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil bar

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English Pages xix, 394 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm Year 2019

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Shadow network: media, money, and the secret hub of the radical right
 9781635573190, 163557319X

Table of contents :
Dramatis personae --
Prologue --
In the beginning: Texas --
The birth of the CNP: Washington --
Lords of the air: the CNP's media empire --
The news hole in the heart of America --
Money people --
Fishers of men: electoral stratagems --
Ideology 101: the CNP's campus partners --
Koch, DeVos, Soros: donors, politics, and pastors --
The Obama challenge --
Data wars --
The art of the deal: New York, June 21, 2016 --
"The Miracle" --
Midterms --
"Democracy in America" --
Epilogue.

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