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Entertaining reading.” — The Washington Post 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. They rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in ways that preserve the status quo; and they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? His groundbreaking investigation has already forced a great, sorely needed reckoning among the world’s wealthiest and those they hover above, and it points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world—a call to action for elites and everyday citizens alike.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781101972670","publication_date":"20191001","publisher":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","slug":"winners-take-all","subtitle":"The Elite Charade of Changing the World","title":"Winners Take All"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"POL007000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Democracy","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"SOC033000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Philanthropy & Charity","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"SOC050000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Social Class","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}],"hint":[],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"POL007000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Democracy","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"SOC033000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Philanthropy & Charity","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"SOC050000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Social Class","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Democracy","score":1,"slug":"democracy"},{"label":"Philanthropy & Charity","score":1,"slug":"philanthropy-charity"},{"label":"Social Class","score":1,"slug":"social-class"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers who enjoy Democracy","Good for readers interested in book club","Good for readers who enjoy Democracy and Philanthropy & Charity."],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Matthew Desmond"],"book_id":"9780593239933","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780593239933.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":11.693,"title":"Poverty, by America","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780593239933"},{"authors":["Priya Fielding-Singh PhD","Priya Fielding-Singh"],"book_id":"9780316427258","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780316427258.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":10.4539,"title":"How the Other Half Eats","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780316427258"},{"authors":["Jane Mayer"],"book_id":"9780307947901","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780307947901.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":9.7518,"title":"Dark Money","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780307947901"},{"authors":["Kerri Arsenault"],"book_id":"9781250799685","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781250799685.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":9.0685,"title":"Mill Town","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781250799685"},{"authors":["Albert Memmi","Jean-Paul Sartre","Susan Gibson Miller"],"book_id":"9780807003015","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780807003015.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":8.9657,"title":"The Colonizer and the Colonized","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780807003015"},{"authors":["Malcolm Gladwell","Little, Brown & Company"],"book_id":"9780316478526","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780316478526.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":8.3307,"title":"Talking to Strangers","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780316478526"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:best books"],"label":"Best","score":0.2854,"slug":"best"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:political science books"],"label":"Political","score":0.1549,"slug":"political"},{"evidence_refs":["phrase_map_match"],"label":"Book Club","score":0.0914,"slug":"book-club"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:dark money"],"label":"Dark","score":0.0812,"slug":"dark"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:dark money"],"label":"Money","score":0.0481,"slug":"money"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Political, Book Club, Dark.","Reading lane: Democracy and Philanthropy & Charity.","Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group."]},"llm_signals":null,"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":false,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":0,"goodreads_ratings_count":17343,"goodreads_reviews_count":2293,"quality_score":0.9644}}