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★★★★☆ 4.21 • Goodreads

Genre

Subgenres

  • Political Economy
  • Social Criticism
  • American History

Tags

  • Evidence-Based Critique
  • Systemic Inequality
  • Cultural Myths
  • Witty Analysis
  • Power Structures
  • Meritocracy Fallacies
  • Historical Anecdotes
  • Urgent Realism

Loved The Sirens' Call for exposing economic sleight-of-hand? Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen names every architect who designed the heist.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Names names—actual architects, not vague elites
  • 50-yr timeline shows *when* everything broke
  • Both parties get scorched w/ receipts
  • Wit + rage = readable systemic autopsy

If The Sirens' Call sharpened your eye for the sleight-of-hand that gutted American prosperity, Andersen's Evil Geniuses names the architects and dates the blueprints. This is capitalism's origin story rewritten as a calculated heist—decades of deliberate policy choices that rigged markets, crushed wages, and sold the wreckage as meritocracy. Andersen wields courtroom evidence and economic data like scalpels, cutting through the mythology that both parties have peddled while you watched your paycheck flatline.

This is the playbook they used—now you get to read it back to them.

Where The Sirens' Call exposed the seduction, Evil Geniuses maps the entire con. It's the historical receipts for your millennial rage, delivered with the wit and rigor that refuses to comfort or condescend.

This is the playbook they used—now you get to read it back to them.

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What Readers Are Saying

"an invigorating call to action...a fast, pleasurable read" David Kamp, Goodreads
"this could easily be the best book I have read...the amount of research Andersen undertook is mind-boggling." David, Goodreads
"a wonderfully useful book to educate us...Read this book to find out what we missed" Steven Maimes, Goodreads

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