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.
Fast Passes: | This event has free Fast Passes. Fast Passes are not available yet. |
Where: | Student Union Gallagher Theater (Seats 337) |
When: | Sat, Mar 15, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Tent (following presentation)
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Genre: | Current Issues / Politics / Social Science |
Moderator: | Tim Steller |
Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of C-SPAN / BookTV |
Panelists
Catherine BracyCatherine 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 CongerKate 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 GamermanAmy 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....
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
Buy nowThe 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.
The story of the showdown between Musk and Twitter and his eventual takeover of the company is unlike anything in business or media that has come before. In vivid, cinematic detail, Conger and Mac follow the inner workings of the company as Musk lays siege to it, first from the outside as one of its most vocal users, and then finally from within as a contentious and mercurial leader. Musk has shared some of his version of events, but Conger and Mac have uncovered the full story through exclusive interviews, unreported documents, and internal recordings at Twitter following the billionaire's takeover. With unparalleled sources from within and around the company, they provide a revelatory, three-dimensional, and definitive account of what really happened when Musk showed up, spoiling for a brawl and intent on revolution, with his merciless, sycophantic cadre of lawyers, investors, and bankers.
This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost? 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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