
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Synopsis
*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***
Chosen as a book of the year by the *New Yorker***, Financial Times, **The Times and *Sunday Times***.**
*'A field guide to the super-rich . . . a hoot to chronicle - and even more fun to read' Sunday Times*
The one percent now hold more of America's wealth than they did in the heyday of the Carnegies and Rockefellers, and their habits cast a longer shadow than ever before. With deft storytelling and meticulous reporting, Evan Osnos exposes the hidden world of the ultrarich in all its outrageous, fabulous, ridiculous detail: superyachts, luxury bunkers, private gigs, wealth managers, elite tax dodges and a torrent of political donations.
Osnos's essays are an entertaining, unsettling and eye-opening wake-up call - a case against complacency in the face of unchecked excess and staggering disparities of wealth and power. As the choices of the ultrarich ripple through our lives, The Haves and Have-Yachts couldn't be more relevant to today's world.
'A prestige romp' New York Times
'Superb' Literary Review
'Charming' Washington Post
'Important' Irish Times
'Entertaining and unsettling' Financial Times
Publisher information
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- ISBN: 9781398553262
- Number of pages: 304
- Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 21 mm
- Weight: 222g
- Languages: English