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100 1  Schulman, Daniel,|eauthor. 
245 10 Sons of Wichita :|bhow the Koch brothers became America's 
       most powerful and private dynasty /|cby Daniel Schulman. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [Ashland, Oregon] :|bBlackstone Audio, Inc. ;|aNew York, 
       NY :|bHachette Audio,|c[2014] 
264  4 |c℗2014 
300    10 audio discs (12.5 hr.) :|bdigital, CD audio ;|c4 3/4 
       in. 
336    spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 
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500    Compact discs. 
500    Duration: 12:30:00. 
500    "Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container. 
511 0  Read by Allen O'Reilly. 
520    Not long after the 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 in
       1967. 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. 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 machine that is a center 
       of gravity 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.
       Bill, meanwhile, 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. 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. 
600 10 Koch, David H.,|d1940-2019 
600 10 Koch, Charles G.|q(Charles de Ganahl),|d1935- 
610 20 Koch Industries|xHistory. 
650  0 Businesspeople|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Billionaires|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Political activists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Philanthropists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Families|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Libertarianism|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Free enterprise|zUnited States|xHistory. 
655  7 Audiobooks.|2lcgft 
700 1  O'Reilly, Allen,|enarrator. 
710 2  Hachette Audio (Firm) 
710 2  Blackstone Audio, Inc.|epublisher. 
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