'Shadow Network' Offers A Lesson On The American Right's Mastery Of Politics

'Shadow Network' Offers A Lesson On The American Right's Mastery Of Politics Shadow Network Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right By Anne Nelson Purchase BookPurchase close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. And as Anne Nelson writes in her fascinating new book, Shadow Network, it's had an outsize effect on the modern American political landscape. The CNP's structure, Nelson writes, was similar to a group called the Council on Foreign Relations — like that group, the CNP organized as a tax-exempt educational institution, although it was "designed to serve as the engine for a radical political agenda." "he Republicans fell into line as soon as Trump's nomination was confirmed, and the CNP media complex responded to a central command," Nelson writes.