ANAND GIRIDHARADAS is the author of Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling. He is an editor-at-large for TIME and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times from 2005 to 2016. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, and a former McKinsey analyst. He has spoken on the main stage of TED. Anand's writing has been honored by the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Poynter Fellowship at Yale, the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year award, Harvard University's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
A New York Times bestseller | Named one of The New York Times
"100 Notable Books of 2018" | Named one of NPR's "Best Books of
2018" | Named one of the Financial Times "Books of the Year" |
Named one of The Washington Post's "50 Notable Works of Nonfiction"
| One of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Best
International Nonfiction” books of 2018 | One of
the GreenBiz “10 Best Climate and Business Books of 2018”
| 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year
“Entertaining and gripping . . . For those at the helm, the
philanthropic plutocrats and aspiring 'change agents' who believe
they are helping but are actually making things worse, it’s time
for a reckoning with their role in this spiraling dilemma. I
suggest they might want to read a copy of this book while in the
Hamptons this summer.” —Joseph E. Stiglitz, The New York Times Book
Review
"Truly, a fascinating book that exposes the world we live in
today."—Trevor Noah
“Anand Giridharadas takes a swipe at the global elite in a
trenchant, provocative and well-researched book about the people
who are notionally generating social change . . . Read it and
beware.” —Martha Lane Fox, Financial Times, “Books of the Year
2018”
“A splendid polemic . . . Giridharadas writes brilliantly on
the parasitic philanthropy industry.” —The Economist
“Impassioned . . . That Giridharadas questions an idea that has
become part of the air we breathe is alone worth the price of the
book, and his delicious skewering of the many who exalt their own
goodness while making money from dubious business practices makes
for entertaining reading.” —Bethany McLean, The Washington Post
“One of the most insightful and provocative books about what’s
going on in America that I’ve read in years.” —Senator Brian Schatz
(Hawaii)
“The past years have seen some outstanding books on how
philanthropists and their dollars have shaped public policy . .
. [Anand Giridharadas] zeros in on what he sees as a glaring
hypocrisy among affluent elites: that while many well-meaning (and
well-off) Americans claim to want to improve society's
inequalities, they don't challenge the structures that preserve
that inequality, not wanting to jeopardize their own privileged
positions.” —Jessica Smith, NPR, “Best Books of 2018”
“Important . . . [An] empathic tone gives the book its persuasive
power to touch the hearts of even those readers, like myself, who
are the targets of its criticism.” —Mark Kramer, Stanford Social
Innovation Review
“An extraordinarily important book.” —Lydia Polgreen,
editor-in-chief, Huffington Post
“Important . . . [Winners Take All] levels a devastating
attack on philanthrocapitalism.” —Benjamin Soskis, The Chronicle of
Philanthropy
“Indispensable . . . A lacerating critique.” —Chris Lehmann, In
These Times
“Provocative and passionate . . . This damning portrait of
contemporary American philanthropy is a must-read for anyone
interested in ‘changing the world.’” —Publishers Weekly (boxed and
starred review)
“A challenging, provocative & bold book. I don’t agree with
all of Anand’s critiques . . . but I encourage everyone to read the
book & think hard about his take on the social sector.” —Mark
Tercek, CEO, The Nature Conservancy
“Giridharadas makes a compelling case . . . [He] ultimately
succeeds with Winners Take All by adopting a temperate
approach that creates space for a conversation.” —David Talbot, Los
Angeles Review of Books
“Anyone following the debate about the role
of philanthrocapitalists, corporate foundations or tech
billionaires in solving the world's problems will want to
watch for this new book.” —Jena McGregor, The Washington
Post
“[A] landmark new book.” —Darren Walker, president, The Ford
Foundation
“[Giridharadas] has delivered a clarion call that will be a fixture
on my syllabus and bookshelf.” —Megan Tompkins-Stange, assistant
professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University
of Michigan
“This is a very difficult subject to tackle, but Giridharadas
executes it brilliantly . . . This must-have title will be of
great interest to readers, from students to professionals and
everyone in-between, interested in solutions to today’s
complex problems . . . Winners Take All will be the
starting point of conversations private and in groups on
alternatives to the status quo and calls to action. An excellent
book for troubled times.” —Booklist
“In Anand’s thought-provoking book his fresh perspective on solving
complex societal problems is admirable. I appreciate his
commitment and dedication to spreading social justice.” —Bill
Gates
“An insightful and refreshing perspective on some of the most
vexing issues this nation confronts. This is an important book
from a gifted writer whose honest exploration of complex problems
provides urgently needed clarity in an increasingly confusing era.”
—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy
“A trenchant, humane, and often revelatory investigation by one of
the wisest nonfiction writers going.” —Katherine Boo, author of
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
“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. 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. 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. 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. It not only reorients us as we lurch out of a long
ideological intoxication; it also embodies the values—intellectual
autonomy and dissent—that we need to build a just society.” —Pankaj
Mishra, author of Age of Anger
“In this trenchant and timely book, Anand Giridharadas shows how
the winners of global capitalism seek to help the losers, but
without disturbing the market-friendly arrangements that keep the
winners on top. He gives us an incisive critique of
corporate-sponsored charities that promote frictionless ‘win-win’
solutions to the world’s problems but disdain the hard, contentious
work of democratic politics. An indispensable guide for those
perplexed by the rising public anger toward ‘change-making’
elites.” —Michael J. Sandel, author of What Money Can’t Buy: The
Moral Limits of Markets
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