Anand Giridharadas
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Pub. Date
2014
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Winner of the NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, NPR, and Publishers Weekly
"Haunting....[A]mong the most riveting nonfiction I have read in a long time....The True American gives you new eyes on your nation, makes you wonder about both the recent South Asian immigrant behind the counter at the food mart and the tattooed white
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
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. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news.
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age,...
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age,...
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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 25 cm.
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Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, "We're all trying to go that way," pointing to the rear. "You, you're going this way?" Giridharadas was returning to the land of his ancestors, amid an unlikely economic boom....
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Pub. Date
2018.
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288 pages ; 24 cm.
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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...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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335 pages ; 25 cm
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"An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and save democracy"--
The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds in order to change things. Giridharadas takes us inside movements and political parties that have built barriers and increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Meet activists, politicians, educators...