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*
‘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 exposé 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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