Daniel Schulman – Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty [AudioBook Unabridged 1 MP3]
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Not long after the death of his father, whose heart gave out suddenly in November 1967, Charles Koch – then in his early thirties – discovered a letter his father had written when his four sons were small. ”My dear boys,” it began, ”when you are twenty-one, you will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money. It may either be a blessing or a curse.” ”Above all,” he cautioned, ”be kind and generous to one another.”

In the ensuing decades, Fred’s legacy became a blessing and a curse. Two of his sons, Charles and David, joined forces to build Koch Industries, one of the largest private corporations in the world. But they ended up in an epic feud with brothers Bill and Frederick that spanned nearly two decades, tearing the family apart – and nearly Koch Industries along with it. Bill would start his own energy company and attain a modicum of fame as a litigious wine-collector and yachtsman. After being marginalized by the patriarch because of his effete manner, Frederick became a patron of the arts and a fastidious refurbisher of historic estates. [Read more…]