The real story-along with workings of the upper class itself-is much more complicated. It’s just silly to imply that all elite efforts to change the world are a “charade.” Full stop. The provocative subtitle of Winners Take All is a tip-off to the problems that lie inside. The books feels like a hit job in places, failing to wrestle with nuances that might weaken its polemical force. It offers an incomplete look at America’s upper class and its role in social change. While the hypocrisies he exposes are familiar, nobody else has written about them with such scathing brilliance.īut Winners Take All is also a frustrating book. Giridharadas taps an insider’s access to skewer a wealth elite that exists in a self-congratulatory bubble. It’s about time that someone came along and wrote a takedown of the corporate-friendly world of milquetoast social change efforts.Īnand Giridharadas’s much talked about book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, aims to be that takedown, and at one level, it’s a very satisfying read.
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