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.
An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news.įormer 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. The New York Times best-selling, 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. One of the GreenBiz “10 Best Climate and Business Books of 2018” One of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Best International Nonfiction” books of 2018 Named one of The Washington Post ’s “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction” Named one of the Financial Times “Books of the Year” Named one of The New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2018″
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