“…a gripping, disquieting book that exposes and explains why it's been so hard to bring about any real change in our country. ”

— Arianna Huffington The Huffington Post on Shadow Elite

Shadow Elite

ISBN: 9780465022014


Buy the book

Shadow Elite


by Janine R. Wedel


It can feel like we’re swimming in a sea of corruption, confused by who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The same influential people reappear time after time in different professional guises, pressing their own agendas in one venue after another. These are the powerful “shadow elite,” the main players in a vexing new system of power and influence.
In her profoundly original Shadow Elite, award-winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine R. Wedel gives us the tools we need to recognize these powerful yet elusive figures and to comprehend the new system. Nothing less than our freedom and our ability to self-govern is at stake.