{"product_id":"how-to-rule-the-world-an-education-in-power-at-stanford-university-0593832833","title":"How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0593832833\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Baker, Theo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe instant New York Times bestseller  Named a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by Barnes \u0026amp; Noble, Amazon, and Apple Books\"A rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that sets the agenda for the planet . . . in the tradition of Michael Lewiss Wall Street chronicle Liars Poker. -The New York Times\"If Bakers 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 Presidents Men.\" -The San Francisco ChroniclePoignant, 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 LeibovichFrom 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 Valleys favored teenagers.Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed 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 corner-cutting, 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 trillion-dollar startup founders. For them, there were secret societies, pre-idea 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 Tessier-Lavigne, a superstar neuroscientist and wealthy biotech executive. But when Baker joined the student newspaper and started poking around the Stanford presidents record, he discovered never-reported allegations of research misconduct in studies published across two decades bearing Tessier-Lavigne's 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. High-powered 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, Tessier-Lavigne 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 front-page news across the country. It is also an unprecedented inside view of the students learning to rule the world-and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52177691803936,"sku":"NEW0593832833","price":31.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71AbdULsiiL.jpg?v=1786476446","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/how-to-rule-the-world-an-education-in-power-at-stanford-university-0593832833","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}