Thought-provoking, expansive, and timely." -Isabel Wilkerson, author, The Warmth of Other Suns " Winners Take All boldly exposes one of the great if little-reported scandals of the age of globalization: the domestication of the life of the mind by political and financial power and the substitution of 'thought leaders' for critical thinkers. If you want to be part of the solution, you should read this book." -Ai-jen Poo, director, National Domestic Workers Alliance "A brilliant, rising voice of our era takes us on a journey among the global elite in his search for understanding of our tragic disconnect. The book courageously answers so many of the critical questions about how, despite much good will and many good people, we struggle to achieve progress in twenty-first-century America. " Winners Take All is the book I have been waiting for-the most important intervention yet regarding elite-driven solutions, a vitally important problem to expose.
A call to action for elites and everyday citizens alike. Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? He also points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world. We hear the limousine confessions of a celebrated foundation boss witness an American president hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors and attend a cruise-ship conference where entrepreneurs celebrate their own self-interested magnanimity. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor how they lavishly reward thought leaders who redefine change in winner-friendly ways and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can-except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it.
An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today's news. The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to change the world preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.
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