Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp-On the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics

by Kenneth P. Vogel

Book Overview

Mark Hanna -- the turn-of-the-century iron-and-coal-magnate-turned-operative who leveraged massive contributions from the robber barons -- was famously quoted as saying: "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is." To an extent that would have made Hanna blush, a series of developments capped by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision effectively crowned a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610393384
• ISBN13: 9781610393386
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.8"