From: Huff Post
WASHINGTON -- Charles and David Koch are the unofficial
standard-bearers of a new generation of billionaires, willing to spend
immense sums to influence politics. Best known for bankrolling the tea
party movement, the fiercely private Koch family has achieved a
quasi-mythical status in political circles. Yet they remain an enigma to
most Americans.
Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty aims to change that. Written by Mother Jones senior editor Daniel Schulman, the biography,
set to be released Tuesday, draws on hundreds of interviews with Koch
family and friends, as well as thousands of pages of legal documents.
The Huffington Post received a copy of the book on Friday.
Schulman
examines the roots of Charles and David Koch's libertarian worldview
through the lens of their family, including the formative relationship
that all four Koch brothers had with their father, the cold, ambitious
Fred Koch. Schulman also traces the bitter and litigious history of
Charles and David Koch's relationships with their lesser-known brothers:
Frederick, the eldest, and Bill, David’s twin brother.
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