Anand Giridharadas is the author of The Persuaders, Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling. A former foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Times, he is publisher of the newsletter The Ink. He has taught narrative journalism at New York University and is a political analyst for MSNBC. Giridharadas has received the Radcliffe Fellowship, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award. He lives in New York.

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