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 its review, it rings among the best books ever written about american corporation. it was released two weeks ago today, and immediately caught the times top ten list of nonfiction bestsellers