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Get the Summary of Anand Giridharadas' Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: 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. 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. 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.
Original book introduction: 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. 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. 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.