Nerd Reich

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This transfixing debut from journalist Durn investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires linked to the second Trump administration...Its an ominous look at an insular elite arrayed against American democracy. Publishers Weekly (starred review) A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambition of the technocrats at its center, and offering a road map to resistance. When Silicon Valley says it is moving fast and breaking things, the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durn reveals something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule. Drawing on insider political experience and new investigations, Durn traces this ideology from