and come back to Wichita to work for the family business. In 1961 Fred convinced his son Charles to leave his new job at Arthur D. In 1960, he published the pamphlet “A Businessman Looks at Communism” in which he claimed that the National Education Association was a communist front organization and that public school books were filled with pro-communist propaganda. He later joined with Robert Welch and a group of businessmen to establish the virulently anti-communist John Birch Society. This experience informed his extreme anti-communist views. Do to legal issues surrounding his patent, Fred ended up working in Stalin’s Russia between 19. In 1927, he won a patent for an improved petroleum refining process. Over almost 600 pages, this enjoyable read clearly elucidates many of the troubling outcomes from the last 50 years like the rolling blackouts in California and the destruction of the labor movement.įred Koch, the family patriarch, graduated in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1922. Leonard weaves an epic tale of brilliance, philosophical intransigence, greed and ruthlessness. Kochland is told through the lens of Koch Industries whose “annual revenue is larger than that of Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and US Steel combined.”
It is an economic history of America since 1967 that shows the deep changes in our economy that have given rise to a new kind of capitalism. His first book, The Meat Racket The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business received rave reviews however, Kochland is uniquely special. Kochland The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America is the second book by former agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press, Christopher Leonard. This may be the finest book thus far in the twenty-first century.
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