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The haves and have-yachts : dispatches on the ultrarich / Evan Osnos.
"A collection of essays explores American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape-and sometimes warp-our social and political landscape"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668204481 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xix, 278 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2025.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
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| Genre: | Essays. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 305.52340973 Osn | 31681010433860 | NONFIC | Checked out | 11/25/2025 |
- Baker & Taylor
Investigates the lives, influence, and psychology of Americaâs ultrarich, exposing how extreme wealth fuels indulgence, political manipulation, and social distortion, while highlighting the broader consequences of rising inequality and the emergence of a modern American oligarchy. - Baker & Taylor
"A collection of essays explores American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape--and sometimes warp--our social and political landscape"-- - Simon and Schuster
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From National Book Awardâwinning author Evan Osnos comes a âsharpâ¦charming⦠regrettably timelyâ (The Washington Post) collection of essays exploring American oligarchy, billionaire culture, and the new Gilded Age, offering a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shapeâand sometimes warpâour social and political landscape.
The one percent now hold more of Americaâs wealth than they did in the heyday of the Carnegies and Rockefellers. In this incisive work of reportage, Osnos paints an unforgettable portrait of the tactics and obsessions that define todayâs elite class: superyachts, luxury bunkers, tax dodges, and a torrent of political donations that bespeak staggering disparities of wealth and power.
With deft storytelling and meticulous reporting, this is a book about the indulgences, incentives, and psychological distortions that define our economic age. In each essay, Osnos lifts the curtain on a world rarely seen, from the outrageous to the surreal: a private wealth manager betraying an American dynasty; pop stars performing at lavish parties for children; status anxiety spilling from marinas in Monaco and Palm Beach like real-world episodes of Succession or The White Lotus.
Readers will meet disgraced moguls in a âwhite-collar support group,â unravel the largest Ponzi scheme in Hollywood history, and explore the global ambitions of tech tycoons, including Mark Zuckerberg. A celebrated political reporter, Osnos documents the unprecedented influence Silicon Valley and Wall Street now have on Washingtonâand the explosive backlash this influence provokes.
Originally published in The New Yorker, these essays have been revised and expanded to deliver an âeye-opening accountâ (The Guardian) of raw ambition, unimaginable fortune, and the rise of Americaâs modern oligarchy. Osnosâs essays are a wake-up callâa case against complacency in the face of unchecked excess, as the choices of the ultrarich ripple through our lives. Entertaining, unsettling, and eye-opening, The Haves and the Have-Yachts couldnât be more relevant to todayâs world.
