Books written by Anand Giridharadas
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
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 ...
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The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and ...
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The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age
In The Persuaders best-selling author Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization.
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India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking
In India Calling, Giridharadas brings to life the people and the dilemmas of India today, through the prism of his émigré family history and his childhood memories of India.
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The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy--from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and ...
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
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.
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Describes how a Bangladeshi immigrant, shot in the Dallas mini mart where he worked in the days after September 11 in a revenge crime, forgives his assailant and petitions the State of Texas to spare his attacker the death penalty. 20,000 ...
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India Calling
Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, Were all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear. You, youre going this way. Giridharadas was.
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India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking
Telling these stories through the prism of his own emigre family history and his childhood memories of India, Giridharadas shows how India is reinventing itself: how parents and children, husbands and wives, cousins and siblings are seizing ...
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India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking
This is an engrossing and acutely observed appreciation of a country that is at once old and new - an enormously readable book in which everyone, at home in India or abroad, will find something distinctive and altogether challenging.
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Winner of the NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, NPR, and Publishers Weekly "Haunting.…[A]mong the most riveting nonfiction I have read in a ...
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Ranging from Texas's juvenile justice system to the crowd of pilgrims at the Hajj in Mecca; from young military cadets in Bangladesh to elite paratroopers in Israel; from a wealthy household of chicken importers in Karachi to the sober ...
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, Giridharadas argues that we must take on the gruelling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions.
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The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter ...
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The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age
It is the story of a new kind of politics- one that is fierce in its pursuit of justice and earnest in its desire to improve people's lives, but also open, welcoming and, above all else, persuasive.