Description:
Shadow Network - Anne Nelson - 2019
By: Anne Nelson
Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 10-29-19
Language: English
Categories: History, Americas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Bloomsbury presents Shadow Network by Anne Nelson, read by Katherine Fenton.
In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan’s election, a group of some 50 Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this elite club has become a strategic nerve centre for channelling money and mobilising votes behind the scenes. Its secretive membership rolls represent a high-powered roster of fundamentalists, oligarchs and their allies, from Oliver North, Ed Meese and Tim LaHaye in the council’s early days to Kellyanne Conway, Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, and the DeVos and Mercer families today.
In Shadow Network, award-winning author and media analyst Anne Nelson chronicles this astonishing history and illuminates the coalition’s key figures and their tactics. She traces how the collapse of American local journalism laid the foundation for the Council for National Policy’s information war and listens in on the hardline broadcasting its members control. And she reveals how the group has collaborated with the Koch brothers to outfit Radical Right organisations with state-of-the-art apps and a shared pool of captured voter data - outmanoeuvring the Democratic Party in a digital arms race whose result has yet to be decided.
In a time of stark and growing threats to our most valued institutions and democratic freedoms, Shadow Network is essential listening.
©2019 Anne Nelson (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Critic Reviews
"Reveals a political trend that threatens both our form of government and our species.” (Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny)
"Riveting.... Want to understand how so many Americans turned against truth? Read this book." (Nancy Maclean, author of Democracy in Chains)
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