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How To Rule The World: An Education In Power At Stanford University
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Poignant, Maddening, And Genuinely Hilarious, How To Rule The World Is To Be DevouredAnd Fast, Before Stanford Buys Up And Sets Fire To Every Copy. (Talk About A Burn Book!) Mark Leibovich, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Of This Townwinner Of The George Polk Award For His Investigation That Brought Down StanfordS President, Theo Baker Offers A Revelatory And Gripping Account Of Silicon Valley Hubrisslush Funds. Shell Companies. Yacht Parties. This Is Life For Silicon ValleyS Favored Teenagers.SeventeenYearOld Theo Baker Showed Up For Freshman Year At Stanford University As A TechObsessed Coder. It Seemed Like Paradise. There Were Rodin Sculptures Next To Nuclear Laboratories And Inventors Lounging With Olympians. But Baker Soon Discovered A Culture That Embraced CornerCutting, That Vested Infinite Excess And Access In The Hands Of Kids With Few Safeguards To Catch Bad Behavior.Stanford, He Realized, Was Less A School Than A Business. Its Annual Budget Was Nearly Twice That Of Harvard Or Yale And Higher Than Those Of 116 Countries. The Product? Students. Especially Those Special Few Identified As The Next TrillionDollar Startup Founders. For Them, There Were Secret Societies, PreIdea Funding Offers, And Social Calls From Billionaires, All With The Expectation That These Geniuses Would Soon Join The Ruling Elite.At The Helm Of This Business Was Marc TessierLavigne, A Superstar Neuroscientist And Wealthy Biotech Executive. But When Baker Joined The Student Newspaper And Started Poking Around The Stanford PresidentS Record, He Discovered NeverReported Allegations Of Research Misconduct In Studies Published Across Two Decades Bearing TessierLavigneS Name.Only One Month Into College And Thousands Of Miles From Home, Baker Began Receiving Anonymous Letters, Going On Stakeouts, And Tracking Down Confidential Sources. HighPowered Lawyers And Public Relations Teams Were Hired To Attack His Reporting. Stanford Opened An Investigation Into Its Own Leader. And By The End Of The Year, TessierLavigne Was Out As President.This Is The Incredible Journey Of A Reluctant Teenage Reporter Who Uncovered A Story That Shook The Scientific World And Became FrontPage News Across The Country. It Is Also An Unprecedented Inside View Of The Students Learning To Rule The WorldAnd What TheyRe Learning From Those Who Already Do.How To Rule The World Is A Shocking, Hilarious, And Moving Debut, Showcasing Silicon ValleyS Training Ground As Never Before.
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