The Meritocracy Trap

NATIONAL MEDIA: Upon hardcover publication, Markovits's ideas and opinions on the myth of meritocracy flooded trade and online publications as well as tv and radio: Original pieces in the Washington Post and Time, interviews with The Atlantic, and on Morning Joe, CNN, Sirius XM Radio's Michael Smerconish, and Slate Money, and a winning profile in the New York Times exposed audiences to his radical argument.STRONG AND THOUGHT PROVOKING REVIEWS: In his NYT column, David Brooks called the book "powerful;" George Packer used the book as a jumping off point to discuss his own experience with meritocracy; the NYTBR called it "ambitious and distrubing." People and publications continue to engage with his argument even months after publication.FORMIDABLE AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR: This is Daniel Markovits first book for a trade readership, but he is already a revered figure in legal and Ivy League circles, and has a battery of high profile media allies at the ready to talk about his ideasA NATION IN NEED: Ever since the 2016 presidential election, if not well before that, the American people have longed for an explanation of what's gone wrong. How can the richest and most powerful nation in the world be so divided, and seem so overwhelmed by crisis? Markovits's polemical and counterintuitive argument is the first of its kind, offering a holistic diagnosis of what ails the countryRIGOROUS, AMAZING RESEARCH: Anyone can make grand claims, but few authors come to the table with wealth of supporting evidence and research of Markovits.