An investigative journalist and staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, Jane Mayer is author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals and Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires behind the Rise of the Radical Right.
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