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| Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
- Discover an insider’s groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” actually preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.
- Hear the limousine confessions of a celebrated foundation boss; listen to a former American president grapple with whether his plutocratic benefactors are the change agents they claim to be; and attend a cruise-ship conference where entrepreneurs celebrate their own self-interested magnanimity.
- Observe the author asking tough questions like, “Should the world’s gravest problems be solved by unelected elites rather than the public institutions they erode by lobbying and dodging taxes?” Or, “How do those who commit injustice—like the family who helped seed the opioid crisis—use generosity to cover it up?”
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About the Author
Anand Giridharadas is the author of The True American and India Calling. He was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times from 2005 to 2016, and has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an Aspen Institute Fellow, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a former McKinsey analyst. He teaches journalism at New York University and has spoken on the main stage of TED. His writing has been honored by the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Poynter Fellowship at Yale, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can follow him on Twitter @anandwrites
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