This enjoyable, helpful read may, paradoxically, suspend our solipsism for long enough to better prosecute that recruitment. And there are occasional, inadvertently funny passages. The most skippable stretch of the book is a long, Wikipediaesque biography of Ocasio-Cortez, all well-rehearsed information by this point. The effect of this, deliberately or otherwise, is to underscore the need for everyone to consider the alternative view. The clever thing about Giridharadas’s approach is that while dissecting the prejudices of others, he flushes out your own kneejerk reactions. Despite the occasional cuts-job vibe of books by busy media operators, I found it a useful, thoughtful and interesting read. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World is a 2018 non-fiction book by American author Anand Giridharadas. The book grapples with the dangers of political purity and how to persuade people from the centre right and flabby middle to the left without diluting the cause.
As it turns out, The Persuaders is, well, persuasive, with a mission to find solutions for all this by identifying strategists, activists and thought leaders who have broken through entrenched political indifference or partisanship to build bridges or win over new fan.
A thinky book on a subject many of us may feel we’ve heard too much about already.
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