Telling this story as well as “Kochland” does is harder than it looks, and not just for the obvious reasons. Leonard peers into the black box of the enormous energy conglomerate itself: “Kochland” is a corporate history, lucidly told. In “Kochland,” the business journalist Christopher Leonard adds to a growing shelf that includes Jane Mayer’s best-selling “Dark Money” and Daniel Schulman’s “Sons of Wichita.” Schulman focused on the Koch family story, while Mayer investigated the Koch-funded war chest for a conservative political agenda, including a stubborn denial of climate science. With great power comes a lot of publicity - not all of it wanted, as a new book about the secretive Koch Industries makes clear.
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