It doesn’t take the most astute observer to realize American politics are in crisis. Our government is often gridlocked on the precipice of shutdown. Laws are rarely passed. Politicians seem to stand for little but say much to get themselves re-elected - or hired after leaving office to peddle their connections for ludicrous sums. Seeing this daily in the headlines is maddening; understanding its origins boils the blood. Told through exceptional reporting and level headed narration, Dark Money shows the readers where hardliner ideas that were unimaginable a generation ago came to be commonly held beliefs by many of our representatives - and constituents. Through bogus academic studies, slippery rhetorics, and millions to grease the wheels, a few ultra rich families pushed America into their pockets to enrich themselves - to the detriment of the rest of us. Jane Mayer shows us just how they pulled it off.