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Guest:Daniel Schulman Dan grew up in New York’s Hudson River Valley. He’s a graduate of Emerson College (2000) and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism (2005). A former assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, he has written on a range of topics, including bioterrorism, information warfare, private military contractors, corporate espionage, federal whistleblowers, and money in politics. (He also once wrote a story about the cult of New Yorker rejectees.) He is a senior editor in the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones, and a founding member of the magazine’s investigative journalism team. In addition to Mother Jones and the Columbia Journalism Review, his work has appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine the Village Voice, Psychology Today, and many other publications. He splits his time between Washington, DC, and Cambridge, MA. Sons of Wichita is his first book. THE BOOK: “Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty” Not long after the 1967 death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. “You will receive what seems now to be a large sum of money,” Fred Koch cautioned. “It may be either a blessing or a curse.” Fred’s legacy would become a blessing and a curse to his four sons—Frederick, Charles, and fraternal twins David and Bill—who in the ensuing decades fought bitterly over their birthright, the oil and cattle-ranching empire their father left behind. Against a backdrop of scorched- earth legal skirmishes, Charles and David built Koch Industries into one of the largest private corporations in the world—bigger than Boeing and Disney—and they rose to become two of the wealthiest men on the planet, tied for 6th on Forbes’s annual list of the world’s billionaires with fortunes estimated at $40 billion apiece. Influenced by the sentiments of their father, who was present at the birth of the John Birch Society, Charles and David have spent decades trying to remake the American political landscape and mainline their libertarian views into the national bloodstream. They now control a sprawling political machine that wields considerable power within the Republican Party. To their supporters, they are liberating America from the scourge of Big Government. To their detractors, they are political “contract killers,” as David Axelrod, President Barack Obama’s chief strategist, put it during the 2012 campaign. Cast out of the family company following a dramatic boardroom coup attempt, Bill built a multi-billion-dollar energy empire all his own, and earned notoriety as an America’s Cup-winning yachtsman, a flamboyant playboy, and as a litigious collector of fine wine and Western memorabilia. Frederick lived an intensely private life as an arts patron, refurbishing a series of historic homes and estates from Manhattan’s Upper East Side to France’s Côte d’Azur. Sons of Wichita traces the complicated lives and legacies of these four tycoons, as well as their business, social, and political ambitions. No matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of our era, but so little is publicly known about this family, their origins, how they make their money, and how they live their lives. Based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of pages of never-before-seen documents, Sons of Wichita is the first major biography about this wealthy and powerful family—warts and all.
Guest: Greg Ip Greg Ip is an award-winning journalist and the Wall Street Journal's Chief Economics Commentator. He's spent two decades in financial and economic journalism, including eleven years at the Wall Street Journal and six years at The Economist. He appears frequently on television and radio, including National Public Radio, PBS, MSNBC, and CNBC. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland THE BOOK: “Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe” How the very things we create to protect ourselves, like money market funds or anti-lock brakes, end up being the biggest threats to our safety and wellbeing. We have learned a staggering amount about human nature and disaster -- yet we keep having car crashes, floods, and financial crises. Partly this is because the success we have at making life safer enables us to take bigger risks. As our cities, transport systems, and financial markets become more interconnected and complex, so does the potential for catastrophe. How do we stay safe? Should we? What if our attempts are exposing us even more to the very risks we are avoiding? Would acceptance of danger make us more secure? Is there such a thing as foolproof? In FOOLPROOF, Greg Ip presents a macro theory of human nature and disaster that explains how we can keep ourselves safe in our increasingly dangerous world. Jack Girardi, Partner at Girardi Keese, is one of America's Finest Trial Lawyers and our Co-Host, as always, brings out the most important key elements to the success of today's guests. He and his firm have been dedicated to working hard and getting the best possible recovery for its clients. Girardi Keese's mission is to provide aggressive representation of individuals and businesses who have been injured in sous way, whether by physical harm, property damage, damage to business, or damage to economic interests. Girardi & Keese has two offices in California: Downtown Los Angeles and San Bernardino. www.girardikeese.com Hosted by Steve Murphy
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