"Schwab makes a strong case, based on years of reporting, that under the direction of a humbler man the Gates Foundation would probably be a more effective force for good."
--The New York Times

"In Stage One of the neoliberal revolution, we cut taxes, encouraged tech monopolies, deregulated everything, and built up a set of billionaires like the world had never seen before. Stage Two will come when we learn to love all these changes--because those billionaires are fine people doing good in our sadly privatized world. Thanks to Tim Schwab's devastating account of the Gates Foundation, however, that day of rationalization may never arrive. Read it and learn the brutal truth: there is nothing altruistic about the world's favorite billionaire."
--Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas

"Tim Schwab has written the definitive critique of Bill Gates as bully-philanthropist. Schwab uses the case of Gates to tell a compelling and carefully researched story that raises disturbing questions about the lack of accountability of power-philanthropy."
--Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor, The American Prospect

"This is not the story of one bad man, so much as a demonstration of the inability for anyone--no matter how smart or rich--to solve the world's problems from the top down with money and technology. As this well-argued and immensely engaging account of Bill Gates's forays into world-saving by fiat make clear, the problem with Big Philanthropy is the Big Hubris that comes along with it."
--Douglas Rushkoff, author of Survival of the Richest

"In this incisive and penetrating book, Schwab dares to confront a question society has long ignored: should a secretive, unaccountable billionaire dictate policy in public health, education, and science? Fearlessly rendered and much-needed."
--Sonia Shah, author of The Next Great Migration

"Tim Schwab follows the money to expose what happens when one man--however intelligent or well-intentioned--amasses so much wealth and so much power, he can literally dictate to governments around the world. With great skill--and given the range of Bill Gates's influence, considerable courage--Schwab pulls back the curtain to deliver a classic of muckraking journalism."
--D. D. Guttenplan, editor, The Nation