christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. taking reporter calls, wrote a couple pieces for the new york times and cnn business. they spent eight years and cook koshland and the extraordinary empire in the poem political network has put together by david coke and his older brother charles based hundred hours on the road in wichita. anybody had a chance to read the book? >> so you will not understand, you'll know immediately when you get into it as you get into it it is daunting when you pick it up. it's encyclopedic, 574 pages and that's before you get to the notes and the appendix and then acknowledgments. but they have written a 574 page page turner. as a former journalist, i am inspired by how deeply researched this book is. by the degree of detail that he is packed into it, despite his limited access to company executives including koch industry mastermind. it's so obsessively written, it's fastening, dramatic and at the very top of the checklist, it is fair. maybe more than some people would like. new york times said in i

christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. taking reporter's calls and wrote a coup of op-ed articles after the death of david koch. chris spent eight near in the the kochland, the place and the title of his book, pulling back the curtain on the extraordinary business empire and the potent political network that was put toth by the david koch and his older brother, charles, from their base three hours down the road in wichita. anybody here had a chance to read the book yet? so, you won't understand but you'll knee immediately when you get into it, as you get into it, what i'm talking about. it's daunting when you pick it up. it's 574 pages and that's before you get to the noteses appendix and acknowledgments. but chris has written a 574 bethpage, page turner. as formle journalist i'm awed, ago inspired, by how deeply researched this book is. by the degree of detail that he has packed into it. despite his limited access to company executives, including koch industries master mind, charles koch. and yet it's so accessibly writte

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