Winners Take All

A splendid polemic… Giridharadas writes brilliantly on the parasitic philanthropy industry * Economist *Trenchant, provocative and well-researched… Read it and beware – Martha Lane Fox * Financial Times Books of the Year *Hugely enjoyable… A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world – Aditya Chakrabortty * Guardian *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 – Joseph Stiglitz * New York Times Book Review *Giridharadas isn’t afraid to speak his mind, even if it means taking down some of the most powerful people on the planet… He has started a movement with this scathing critique of a society that rewards monopolistic models, faux philanthropy and protects the interests of a wealthy few – Tabitha Goldstaub * Forbes *A fierce book… What gives Giridharadas’s heartfelt critique such force is that he is a heretic, someone chosen for the equivalent of the priesthood in the new religion of philanthropy who had a revelation and decided to renounce the faith – Iain Martin * The Times *

Anand Giridharadas is the bestselling author of Winners Take All. He is a correspondent-at-large for Time and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC. He has received 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.