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Meet the billionaires: the 1,645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth 6.5 trillion U.S. dollars. Darrell West reveals what the other 99.99998% of us need to know. Combining rich anecdotes, personal narratives, and international data, West goes inside the world of the super rich and lays bare the wealthification of politics and society.  

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F. Scott Fitzgerald taught us that the very rich are different from the rest of us. Now Darrell West has taken us on a thoughtful romp through the world of our new billionaire class. At a moment when we have read both glorifications and denunciations of those with unimaginably large fortunes, West has set out to understand and explain who they are and what they do. He couples a moral concern for the cost of rising inequality with a scholar's commitment to telling the story straight. This is both an important book and a good read. --E.J. Dionne, Georgetown University

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Darrell M. West is the vice president of Governance Studies and the director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings. He is the author of 19 books on American politics and the recipient of several book awards.

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