## Metadata * Author: [[Jane Mayer]] * ASIN: B0180SU4OA * ISBN: 0385535597 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0180SU4OA ## Highlights “No amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them.” — location: [1502](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0180SU4OA&location=1502) ^ref-18692 --- Income in America during the mid-1970s was as equally distributed as at any time in the country’s history. — location: [1597](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0180SU4OA&location=1597) ^ref-41498 --- Conservatives must capture public opinion, he argued, by exerting influence over the institutions that shape it, which he identified as academia, the media, the churches, and the courts. — location: [1603](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0180SU4OA&location=1603) ^ref-13967 --- weaponize their philanthropic giving — location: [1615](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0180SU4OA&location=1615) ^ref-853 --- Joseph Coors, a scion of the archconservative Colorado-based Coors brewery family. — location: [1644](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0180SU4OA&location=1644) ^ref-48088 --- By the early 1980s, the reversal in public opinion was so significant that Americans’ distrust of government for the first time surpassed their distrust of business. — location: [1873](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0180SU4OA&location=1873) ^ref-1020 --- The New York Times, the U.S. Interior Department charged the Olin Corporation with dumping 26.6 pounds of mercury a day into the Niagara River in upstate New York. — location: [2006](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0180SU4OA&location=2006) ^ref-19567 --- “He wanted to be the bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral.” — location: [2101](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0180SU4OA&location=2101) ^ref-35654 --- Total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. —Isaiah Berlin — location: [3187](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0180SU4OA&location=3187) ^ref-60546 ---