Awards

• Long-listed for Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Nonfiction 2016
• Short-listed for J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2017 (United States)
• Short-listed for LA Times Book Prize 2017 (United States)
• Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award 2016 (United States)
• Short-listed for PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2017 (United States)

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'Utterly brilliant and chilling - no matter how much you think you already know ... Read it!' Naomi Klein author of This Changes Everything 'Political journalism at its best, an epic and terrifying story that grips the reader like a Stephen King thriller.' -- A.M. Homes The Observer 'Indispensable.' The Guardian 'Persuasive, timely and necessary.' The New York Times 'A chilling book' Times Higher Education 'A triumph ... Mayer has cut through the secrecy that these men have carefully cultivated ... and given the world a full accounting of what had been a shadowy and largely unseen force.' New York Review of Books 'Packed with revelations.' San Francisco Chronicle 'A must-read for those seeking to understand how Washington became a corporatocracy.' New Internationalist 'Meticulously researched and elegantly written.' -- John Keane Sydney Morning Herald The New York Times 'The 10 Best Books of 2016' The New York Times '100 Notable Books of 2016' NPR's 'Best Books of 2016'

'Indispensable.' The Guardian 'Persuasive, timely and necessary.' The New York Times 'Utterly brilliant and chilling - no matter how much you think you already know ... Read it!' Naomi Klein author of This Changes Everything 'A triumph ... Mayer has cut through the secrecy that these men have carefully cultivated ... and given the world a full accounting of what had been a shadowy and largely unseen force.' New York Review of Books 'Packed with revelations.' San Francisco Chronicle

'Indispensable.' The Guardian 'Persuasive, timely and necessary.' The New York Times 'Utterly brilliant and chilling - no matter how much you think you already know ... Read it!' Naomi Klein author of This Changes Everything 'A triumph ... Mayer has cut through the secrecy that these men have carefully cultivated ... and given the world a full accounting of what had been a shadowy and largely unseen force.' New York Review of Books 'Packed with revelations.' San Francisco Chronicle 'A must-read for those seeking to understand how Washington became a corporatocracy.' New Internationalist 'Political journalism at its best, an epic and terrifying story that grips the reader like a Stephen King thriller.' -- A.M. Homes The Observer 'Meticulously researched and elegantly written.' -- John Keane Sydney Morning Herald 'A chilling book' Times Higher Education

Author Information

Jane Mayer is an award-winning staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three best-selling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. She co-authored Landslide: the unmaking of the president, 1984–1988, with Doyle McManus, and Strange Justice: the selling of Clarence Thomas, with Jill Abramson, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book The Dark Side: the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of The New York Times’ Top 10 Books of the Year. For her reporting at The New Yorker, Mayer has also won numerous awards. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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