Preface: The fighter -- Part 1: The Koch method. Under surveillance ; The age of volatility ; The war for Pine Bend ; The age of volatility intensifies ; The war for Koch Industries ; Koch University ; The enemies circle ; The secret brotherhood of process owners ; Off the rails ; The failure -- Part 2: The black box economy. Rise of the Texans ; Information asymmetries ; Attack of the killer electrons! ; Trading the real world ; Seizing Georgia-Pacific ; The dawn of the labor management system ; The crash -- Part 3: Goliath. Solidarity ; Warming ; Hotter ; The war for America's BUTs ; The education of Chase Kock ; Make the IBU great again ; Burning ; Control -- Appendix: Alphabetical directory of significant characters in Kochland.
Summary:
Christopher Leonard uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America.
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