A groundbreaking work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy that has remade American society.
"Little Bosses Everywhere is an endlessly entertaining and eye-opening exploration of the dark side of the American dream."Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road
"You’ve surely wondered how in the hell Donald Trump’s MAGA movement managed to take power. Incredibly valuable and grimly entertaining, Little Bosses Everywhere will make you wonder how it managed to take so long.”Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland
“Grounded in history and a biting structural critique of country and capitalism, Little Bosses Everywhere is enraging and elucidating; it’s also a terrific and entertaining story. This is an important book.”Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad
"Bridget Read has written the definitive story of a scam that’s seduced millions."Zeke Faux, author of Number Go Up
“A lively, thorough investigation of the alarmingly American multilevel marketing industrial complex, from sketchy juice shops all the way to the White House."Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto
"Little Bosses Everywhere not only reveals the predatory nature of
multilevel marketing, it also raises the specter that the nation itself is now being made over into a giant pyramid scheme."Kristin Kobes Du Mez, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus and John Wayne