This book is a brilliant journalistic investigation by Christopher Leonard dedicated to one of the most powerful family corporations in America - Koch Industries. You can find its products everywhere: in the store you buy vegetables and fruits grown with Koch Industries fertilizers, in the bathroom of your home there are most likely pipes made by this company, synthetic materials from which our children’s diapers are made, and at the same time the carpet in yours. living room, also produced by this corporation, your investment portfolio may well include its shares. But why is so little known about Koch Industries and its founders? Why do the billionaire brothers, who together are richer than Bill Gates, prefer to keep their success a closely guarded secret? Maybe because there is another side to this story? If you want to know how the US labor movement was killed, why the income gap has reached catastrophic proportions, why the fight against climate change has been pushed into the background, and how it happened, that the influence of corporations is stronger than the opinion of society - read this book!