How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University

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"A rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that 'sets the agenda for the planet' . . . in the tradition of Michael Lewis's Wall Street chronicle Liar's Poker." -The New York Times "If Baker's portrait of Stanford could be its own movie (The Internship crossed with The Skulls), his gripping account of how a tip turned into a history-making investigation has the makings of All the President's Men." -The San Francisco Chronicle "Poignant, maddening, and genuinely hilarious, How to Rule the World is to be devoured-and fast, before Stanford buys up and sets fire to every copy. (Talk about a burn book!)" -Mark Leibovich From Theo Baker, winner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford's president, comes a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris. Slush funds. Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley's favored teenagers. Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University ...