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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD * FINANCIAL TIMES’ BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * NPR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF 2019 * KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOKS OF 2019 “Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American corporation.” —Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Book Review 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.The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and US Steel combined. 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. But few people know much about Koch Industries and that’s because the billionaire Koch brothers have wanted it that way. For five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. 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. These strategies made him and his brother David together richer than Bill Gates. But there’s another side to this story. 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. Seven years in the making, 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).

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Until reading this book, I knew very little about Koch (pronounced “Koke”) Industries, founded by Fred Koch in 1940. After his sudden death in 1967, his son Charles succeeded him and remains chairman and CEO of what has since become one of the largest, most profitable, and most secretive corporations throughout the world. CK’s personal net worth is now at least $60-billion, probably more.Christopher Leonard spent more than seven years completing the research that generated the information and insights found in this lively narrative. He provides answers to questions such as these:What is Charles Koch’s business philosophy?What have been the greatest influences on its development?What are the nature and extent of Koch Industries’ corporate power?How to succeed within the Koch organization?What does Charles Koch view as the greatest threats to his and the company’s success?How has he managed to conceal so much information about himself and KI?What to expect from “Kochland” and its leader in months and years to come?These are among the passages of greatest interest and value to me, also listed to suggest the scope of Leonard’s coverage:o Market Based Management (Pages 4, 7, 120, 152-153, 181, and 507-510)o James Elroy (11-13, 19-21, and 130-133)o FBI investigation of oil theft by KI (11-17, 26-27, and 242-144)o Gaugers (15-16, 32-33, 45-49, 128-129, and 132-135)o Ken Ballen (19-33 and 130-131)o Charles Koch (28-33, 39-40, 192-193, 369-371,458-461, and 564-574)o Pine Bend refinery (50-59)o Bill Koch and his antagonism against CK (99-108, 108-112, 115-120, and 197-199)o Koch University (120-129)o Texas (121-141)o W. Edwards Deming’s influence on CK (122-124)o KI’s acquisitions strategy (125-127, 198-199, and 224-225)o KI’s management of toxic pollutants (159-161 and 165-171)o Ammonia (165-176 and 180-187)o Georgia-Pacific (307-324, 328-335, 512-514)o Republication positions re cap-and-trade legislation (393-394, 420-422, and 424-425, 442-445, and 451-457)o Fracking (463-472 and 475-479)o Border Adjustment Tax (542-551)o Americans for Prosperity (546-551)This is not a definitive biography of Charles Koch. Rather, Leonard offers a comprehensive, often compelling analysis of him as a quintessential CEO who has led Koch Industries during the last 50 years. KI is itself an exemplar of the modern global corporation, for better or worse. He and this privately-owned company are interdependent…and representative of ongoing conflicts between free enterprise and governmental oversight.In months and years to come, Christopher Leonard suggests, we can expect Charles Koch to do everything he can to ensure that “the proper shape of Americans society [is] the shape of Kochland.” He is in no hurry. He measures success on a very long timeline, “on a scale of years, even decades.” And his plan is “still just in its early stages.”Stay tuned....

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