Shadow Network

By: Anne Nelson

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Bloomsbury presents Shadow Network by Anne Nelson, read by Katherine Fenton.

“Reveals a political trend that threatens both our form of government and our species.” — Timothy Snyder, author of ON TYRANNY

"Riveting.... Want to understand how so many Americans turned against truth? Read this book." Nancy Maclean, author of DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS

In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan’s election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this elite club has become a strategic nerve center for channeling money and mobilizing votes behind the scenes. Its secretive membership rolls represent a high-powered roster of fundamentalists, oligarchs, and their allies, from Oliver North, Ed Meese, and Tim LaHaye in the Council’s early days to Kellyanne Conway, Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, and the DeVos and Mercer families today.

In Shadow Network, award-winning author and media analyst Anne Nelson chronicles this astonishing history and illuminates the coalition’s key figures and their tactics. She traces how the collapse of American local journalism laid the foundation for the Council for National Policy’s information war and listens in on the hardline broadcasting its members control. And she reveals how the group has collaborated with the Koch brothers to outfit Radical Right organizations with state-of-the-art apps and a shared pool of captured voter data — outmaneuvering the Democratic Party in a digital arms race whose result has yet to be decided.

In a time of stark and growing threats to our most valued institutions and democratic freedoms, Shadow Network is essential listening.©2019 Anne Nelson (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

So thorough. Eye opening.

Leaves no stone unturned. An incredible look at a network designed to be nebulous and hard to track down.

Every American should read this book

I learned a lot about the people who call themselves religious but whom are far from it and who work to undermine every American institution and everything that makes America great. They haven't won yet and we must not let them. They are relentless and so must we be. Highly recommended

wow!

Loved it. Factual and thorough and damming. This book clarifies the source of the biggest danger our democracy is facing.

A must listen

Very detailed accounting of the rise and recent success of the Christo-fascist "evangelical" movement in America. How it exploited the charisma of a serial bankruptee and philanderer named Donald Trump, who can scarcely pretend to be Christian, to latch its dubious tentacles into the highest office of the land to spread its fundamentalist worship of mammon.

Christians of the worst kind

Chock full of information about who is really running the USA. Easy to follow. Narrator was a bit breathy.