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Author:
Nick McDonell
Publisher:
Pantheon
Date:
August 22, 2023
An exploration of wealth, power, and the American elite, exposing how the ruling class--intentionally or not--perpetuates cycles of injustice.
What The Reviewers Say
Made deeply uneasy by the entitlement of America’s ruling class — an entitlement he himself took for granted as a child — [McDonell] doesn’t have any extraordinary insight into why things are the way they are, or how they might be made otherwise.
[An] exploration of privilege and what it means both to be part of the 1 percent and, just as critically, to be part of the other 99 percent and how the system works to keep the offspring in their respective slots.
A reckoning with [McDonelll's] own privileged upbringing.
[A] memoiristic exploration.
