Jane Mayer on Dark Money

Guest: Jane Mayer

We’ll sit down with JANE MAYER to talk about her new book Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. She co-authored Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of the New York Times’s Top 10 Books of the year. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.  For her reporting at The New Yorker, Mayer has been awarded the John Chancellor Award, the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the I. F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence presented by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard.