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An Amazon Best Book of the Year So Far 2024 A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 One of Prospect 's Top Thinkers 2024 ' Utterly engrossing . . . Ambitious, accessible and important ' James O'Brien 'Consistently gripping - dazzling in its sw
' Illuminating . . . reveals why some people and systems are more likely to be corrupted by power than others' - Adam Grant ' Passionate, insightful, and occasionally jaw-dropping . . . Corruptible sets out the story of the intoxicating lure o
Donald Trump isn't a despot. But he is increasingly acting like a despot's apprentice. Whether it's attacking the press, threatening the rule of law, or staffing the White House with family members and cronies, Trump is borrowing moves from th
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. But, argues Klaas, the West is also an accomplice, inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces a
' Utterly engrossing . . . Ambitious, accessible and important ' James O'Brien A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything. In Fluke , myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives in
An "absorbing, provocative, and far-reaching" ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews with those who (temporarily, at least) have had the upper hand--from
' Pertinent! ' Margaret Atwood ' Illuminating . . . reveals why some people and systems are more likely to be corrupted by power than others' Adam Grant ' Passionate, insightful, and occasionally jaw-dropping . . . Corruptible sets out
An ';absorbing, provocative, and far-reaching' (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews with those who (temporarily, at least) have had the upper handfrom the
If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and then press play, would everything turn out the same? Or could making an accidental phone call or missing an exit off the highway change not just your life, but history itself? And would you remain bl
In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan comes a provocative challenge to how we think our world works--and why small, chance events can divert our lives and change ev