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The Bill Gates problem : reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire  Cover Image Book Book

The Bill Gates problem : reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire / Tim Schwab.

Summary:

"A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250850096 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: x, 483 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Lives saved -- Women -- Taxes -- Fail fast -- Transparency -- Lobbying -- Family planning -- Journalism -- Education -- White man's burden -- Bloat -- Science -- Agriculture -- India -- Covid-19.
Subject: Gates, Bill, 1955- > Political activity.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation > Political activity.
Billionaires > Charitable contributions > United States.
Charities > United States > Influence.
Genre: Biographies.
Personal narratives.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lakeshore Branch 338.7610053092 Sch 31681010349355 NONFIC Available -

Tim Schwab is an investigative journalist based in Washington, DC. His groundbreaking reporting on the Gates Foundation for The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, and The British Medical Journal has been honored with an Izzy Award and a Deadline Club Award. The Bill Gates Problem is his first book.


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