Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Private Empire Leonard’s work is fair and meticulous, even as it reveals the Kochs as industrial Citizens Kane of our time.” “ 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. Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Book Review Not since Andrew Ross Sorkin’s landmark Too Big to Fail (2009) have I said this about a book, but Kochland warrants it: If you’re in business, this is something you need to read.” Among the best books ever written about an American corporation. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The book tells the ambitious tale of how one private company consolidated power over half a century-and how in doing so, it helped transform capitalism into something that feels deeply alienating to many Americans today. Seven years in the making, Kochland reads like a true-life thriller, with larger-than-life characters driving the battles on every page. If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, stalled progress on climate change, and how our corporations bought the influence industry, all you have to do is read this book. These strategies have made him and his brother David together richer than Bill Gates.īut there’s another side to this story.
He’s a genius businessman: patient with earnings, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop a reverence for free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter.
But few people know much about Koch Industries and that’s because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way.įor five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading in all these commodities. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. Shortlisted for the 2019 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
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