Tucson Festival of Books

Billionaires Run Wild


They control our internet, our land, even our doctors' offices. America's billionaires have taken over in the 21st Century. In this session, authors Amy Gamerman, Kate Conger and Catherine Bracy will name names and discuss how billionaires now influence the country.


Panelists
Catherine Bracy

Catherine Bracy is a civic technologist and community organizer whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and political and economic inequality. She is the founder and CEO of TechEquity, was previously Code for America’s senior director of Partnerships and Ecosystem, and founded Code for All....

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Kate Conger

Kate Conger is a technology reporter for the New York Times. She writes about X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and its owner, Elon Musk. In more than a decade of covering the tech industry, she has written about the underground world of hackers, the use of artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons and labor uprisings in the gig economy....

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Amy Gamerman

Amy Gamerman is a longtime contributor to the Wall Street Journal's Mansion section; prior, she was the WSJ's drama critic and a staff writer covering arts and culture. Her writing has also appeared in Vogue and Redbook....

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Books:
World Eaters
How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy
Catherine Bracy
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Penguin Group
March 2025
ISBN 9780593473481
272 pages
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Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
Kate Conger
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Penguin Group
September 2024
ISBN 9780593656136
480 pages
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The richest man on earth controlled one of the most powerful media platforms in the world--but at what price? Before long Twitter would be gone for good, replaced by something radically different, as Musk remade the company in his own image from the ground up. More/less

The Crazies
The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West
Amy Gamerman
History / Biography
Simon & Schuster
January 2025
ISBN 9781982158163
464 pages
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