Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by Read, Bridget
Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by Read, Bridget

Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America

A groundbreaking work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing, from the...
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Author: Bridget Read
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Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by Read, Bridget

Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America

$60.69
Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by Read, Bridget

Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America

$60.69
Author: Bridget Read
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A groundbreaking work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing, from the shadowy cabals at the top to the strivers at the bottom, whose deferred dreams churn a massive money-making scam that has remade American society.

Multilevel marketing companies like Amway, Mary Kay, and Herbalife advertise the ultimate business opportunity: the chance to be your own boss. In exchange for peddling their wares, they offer a world of pink Cadillacs, white-columned mansions, tropical vacations, and--most precious of all--financial freedom. If, that is, you're willing to shell out for expensive products, recruit everyone you know to buy them, and make them recruit everyone they know to do the same--thus creating the "multiple levels" of multilevel marketing, or MLM.

Despite overwhelming evidence that multilevel marketing causes most of its participants to lose their money, and that many MLM companies are pyramid schemes, the industry's dubious origins, inextricably tied to well-known ideological figures like Ronald Reagan, have escaped public scrutiny. Behind the scenes of American life, MLM has slithered in the wake of every economic crisis of the last century, from the Depression to the pandemic, ensnaring laid-off workers, stay-at-home moms, teachers, nurses--anyone who has been left behind by inequality.

In Little Bosses Everywhere, journalist Bridget Read tells the gripping story of multilevel marketing in full for the first time, winding from sunny post-war California, where a failed salesman started a vitamin business, through the suburbs of Michigan and North Carolina, where MLM bought its political protection, to the stadium-sized conventions where top sellers today preach to die-hard recruits. MLM has been endorsed by multiple American presidents, has its own Congressional caucus, and enriched powerful people, like the DeVos and Van Andel families, Warren Buffet, and Donald Trump. Along the way, Read delves into the heartbreaking stories of those enmeshed in the majority-female industry: a veteran in Florida searching for healing; a young mom in Texas struggling to feed her children; a waitress scraping by in Brooklyn.

A wild trip down an endless rabbit hole of greed and exploitation, Little Bosses Everywhere exposes multilevel marketing as American capitalism's stealthiest PR campaign: a cunning right-wing political project that has shaped nearly everything about how we live.

Author: Bridget Read
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780593443927
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