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Farrell has done a massive amount of research in this absorbing study of the ultra-rich and their effect on the community. ---Sandra Dallas, Denver Post [Justin] Farrell (Yale Univ.) renders a picture of how the ultra wealthy live, protect their wealth, and handle the stigma associated with being unbelievably rich. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice * Excellent and inspiring. ---Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times The result of hundreds of interviews with both the area's haves and its have-nots - [Billionaire Wilderness] reads like a blend between an extended case study and investigative journalism. ---Carl Segerstrom, High Country News Fascinating. ---Chris Schleup, Amazon Book Review Omnivoracious Billionaire Wilderness can be taken as a challenge to the ultra-wealthy - to check their impact on nature, people, and place - and a challenge to the policies that enable the rich to get richer while the poor suffer. But Farrell's research also offers a challenge to the legacy of conservation itself, particularly as environmentalists work to reconcile ongoing errors of racism and exclusion while still protecting landscapes and wildlife that need protection. There are no easy answers in Billionaire Wilderness, but the book raises the question: When we protect the environment, whom are we protecting it for. ---Austin Price, Earth Island Journal Clearly outlines the roots of the problems: policy, western mythologies, tax breaks, and selfishness. ---Heather Hansman, Outside Magazine Incisive and thorough. ---Jake Bullinger, The Bitterroot Newsletter This is the sort of book you didn't know you needed until after you pick it up. ---Ryan Driskell Tate, Los Angeles Review of Books Enlightening. . . . Peels away a lot of pretty scenery to reveal things underneath a lot less pleasing to look at. ---Mark Huffman, Jackson Hole News & Guide One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership One of the most fascinating and important portraits of modern American life. ---Dylan Schleicher, Porchlight The real stories billionaires tell themselves to justify their wealth. * Medium * An eye-opening look at a specific element of economic and social inequality. * Kirkus Reviews * A Yale sociology professor documents the class divide in Teton County, Wyo., where ultra-wealthy tech CEOs, financiers, and political figures are buying up land and romanticizing rural poverty in order to improve their own socioeconomic status. * Publishers Weekly * Illuminating and provocative. ---Nick Romeo, Daily Beast

An eye-opening look at a specific element of economic and social inequality. * Kirkus Reviews * A Yale sociology professor documents the class divide in Teton County, Wyo., where ultra-wealthy tech CEOs, financiers, and political figures are buying up land and romanticizing rural poverty in order to improve their own socioeconomic status. * Publishers Weekly *

An eye-opening look at a specific element of economic and social inequality. * Kirkus Reviews *

Winner of the Spur Award for Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America Illuminating and provocative. ---Nick Romeo, Daily Beast I just ordered the book Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, on the strength of a recommendation by an architect friend who builds homes for the elite in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I'm only a chapter in, but I'm already fascinated by how conservation can become a way to salve guilt. ---Rana Foroohar, Financial Times The real stories billionaires tell themselves to justify their wealth. * Medium * One of the most fascinating and important portraits of modern American life. ---Dylan Schleicher, Porchlight One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership Eye-opening . . . a great read for anyone interested in the intersection of conservation and inequality in the West. ---Jennifer Weeks, Society of Environmental Journalists This is the sort of book you didn't know you needed until after you pick it up. ---Ryan Driskell Tate, Los Angeles Review of Books Clearly outlines the roots of the problems: policy, western mythologies, tax breaks, and selfishness. ---Heather Hansman, Outside Magazine Excellent and inspiring. ---Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times [Justin] Farrell (Yale Univ.) renders a picture of how the ultra wealthy live, protect their wealth, and handle the stigma associated with being unbelievably rich. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice * Farrell has done a massive amount of research in this absorbing study of the ultra-rich and their effect on the community. ---Sandra Dallas, Denver Post

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Justin Farrell is associate professor of sociology at Yale University in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is the author of the award-winning book The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict (Princeton). A native of Wyoming, he lives in New Haven and Denver. Website: justinfarrell.org Twitter @J_Farrell

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