Christopher Leonard (author) explained
Christopher Leonard (born c. 1975) is an American investigative journalist. He has written three books, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business,[1] the New York Times best-selling ,[2] and The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek.[3]
Leonard is a native of Kansas City, Missouri and a graduate of the University of Missouri Journalism School.[4]
Leonard began his career at the Columbia, Missouri Columbia Daily Tribune before moving to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.[5] He moved to the Associated Press in 2005 where he focused on agri-business issues.
In 2014 Leonard joined the New America Foundation[4] where he finished his first book, The Meat Racket which received positive reviews,[6] and has been praised as tracing "the evolution of the modern American meat industry".[7] While at New America he began work on his second book, Kochland,[4] which was published in 2019 to positive reviews.[8] In 2019, Leonard helped to found the Watchdog Writers Group at the Missouri School of Journalism Reynolds Journalism Institute, where he currently serves as Director.[9]
Books
Awards
Leonard was a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation from 2014 to 2017.[4]
In 2017 he was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for Kochland.[10]
In 2019, Kochland was also a finalist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.[11]
References
- Book: Leonard, Chris. The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business. February 24, 2015. Simon & Schuster. 978-1-4516-4583-5. English.
- Book: Leonard, Chris. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America. August 13, 2019. Simon & Schuster. 978-1-4767-7538-8. English.
- Web site: Christopher Leonard . Simon & Schuster. August 11, 2021.
- Web site: Christopher Leonard . New America Foundation. July 19, 2021. Christopher Leonard was a Schmidt Family Foundation Fellow at New America. As a fellow, Leonard published The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business, which explores the modern American meat system, and began writing a book about Koch Industries..
- News: Is Tyson Foods' Chicken Empire A 'Meat Racket'? . . February 19, 2014 . July 19, 2021 .
- News: McLean . Bethany . Book review: 'The Meat Racket' by Christopher Leonard. . February 28, 2014 . July 19, 2021.
- Schaefer . K. Aleks . October 2014 . The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business. . 96 . 5 . 1507–1508. 10.1093/ajae/aau075 . July 19, 2021 . "[T]he book traces the evolution of the modern American meat industry from its post-Depression origins to the present through the eyes of Tyson Foods’ innovators and contract farmers. Readers experience first-hand the exhilaration of a young couple breaking ground on their first chicken farm and suffer the sorrow of that same couple, years later, as their farm is foreclosed. We sit in Neal's Café, a small diner in Springdale, Arkansas, as John and Don Tyson, in their matching khaki coveralls, discuss corporate strategy and contrive the McDonalds McNugget.".
- News: Burrough . Bryan. The Truth About Koch Industries . . August 15, 2019 . July 19, 2021.
- Web site: Missouri School of Journalism launches new investigative fellowship program to support authors | RJI. www.rjionline.org. 24 July 2019 .
- Web site: Gary Younge, Christopher Leonard and Tyler Anbinder named winners of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. Nieman Foundation.
- Web site: FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019 shortlist announced. Books+Publishing.au.
