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  title info:
    title: Sons of Wichita
    sub title: how the Koch brothers became America's most powerful and private dynasty
  name:
    name part: Schulman, Daniel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 424 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. 'You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money,' Fred Koch cautioned. 'It may either be a blessing or a curse.' Fred's legacy would become a blessing and a curse to his four sons--Frederick, Charles, and fraternal twins David and Bill--who in the ensuing decades fought bitterly over their birthright, the oil and cattle-ranching empire their father left behind in 1967. Against a backdrop of scorched-earth legal skirmishes, Charles and David built Koch Industries into one of the largest private corporations in the world--bigger than Boeing and Disney--and they rose to become two of the wealthiest men on the planet. Influenced by the sentiments of their father, who was present at the birth of the John Birch Society, Charles and David have spent decades trying to remake the American political landscape and mainline their libertarian views into the national bloodstream. They now control a machine that is a center of gravity within the Republican Party. To their supporters, they are liberating America from the scourge of Big Government. To their detractors, they are political 'contract killers,' as David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's chief strategist, put it during the 2012 campaign. Bill, meanwhile, built a multi-billion dollar energy empire all his own, and earned notoriety as an America's Cup-winning yachtsman, a flamboyant playboy, and as a litigious collector of fine wine and Western memorabilia. Frederick lived an intensely private life as an arts patron, refurbishing a series of historic homes and estates. SONS OF WICHITA traces the complicated lives and legacies of these four tycoons, as well as their business, social, and pol…
  note: Daniel Schulman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Koch, David H
      name part: 1940-2019
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Koch, Charles G. (Charles de Ganahl)
      name part: 1935-
  subject:
    topic: Businesspeople
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Billionaires
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Political activists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Philanthropists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Koch Industries
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Families
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Libertarianism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Free enterprise
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History
  classification: HC102.5.K65 S38 2014
  classification: 338.7/6092273 B
  classification: BIO003000 BIO010000 BUS077000
  identifier: 9781455518739 (hardback)
  identifier: 1455518735 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781478953388 (audio download)
  identifier: 9781455518746 (ebook)
  identifier: 2013050789
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140403
    record change date: 20200606063146.0
    record identifier: in00003432755
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng