Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Meat Racket and Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.
'Kochland is a dazzling feat of investigative
reporting and epic narrative writing, a tour de force that
takes the reader deep inside the rise of a vastly powerful family
corporation that has come to influence American workers, markets,
elections and the very ideas debated in our public square.
Leonard's work is fair and meticulous, even as it reveals
the Kochs as industrial Citizens Kane of our time.' -- Steve
Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Private Empire
'Christopher Leonard's visionary, decade-spanning, and
heart-rending investigation into the Koch Empire is
indispensable not just for understanding the rise of
corporate power in America, but for understanding America itself.
Leonard's book will take its place alongside Chernow's Titan
and Coll's Private Empire as one of the great accounts of
American capitalism.' -- Jesse Eisinger, author of The
Chickenshit Club
'Christopher Leonard's Kochland is the kind of book that
doesn't come along that often - a mind-blowing feat of
reporting about a highly secretive organisation. What's even
more amazing is that it seems destined to further convince
both sides about the righteousness of their point of view.
Those who believe in unfettered free-market capitalism will find
much to feast on, while those concerned with the corrosive effects
of growth at all costs will find more than enough to gorge on as
well. And if the one side will see promise while the other sees
peril, both should be able to agree on what this story is really
about, which is power - and a terrifying amount of it at that.' --
Duff McDonald, New York Times bestselling author of The Firm
'Christopher Leonard has produced an investigative feat: a
hugely readable, entirely original,
magisterial work on one of the most important subjects of
our time - the weirdly cultish, terrifyingly successful empire
built all-but invisibly by the billionaire sphinx Charles Koch.' --
Steve LeVine, author of The Oil and the Glory
'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
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'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 *
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