LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes heart-opening true stories) Heather McGhee shows us what racism has cost all of us' - Elizabeth Gilbert Picked for the Financial Times Summer Books by Gillian Tett What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them; and even destroy their own advantages; whenever people of colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe they can't win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie. McGhee marshals overwhelming economic evidence; and a profound well of empathy; to reveal the surprising truth: even racists lose out under white supremacy. And US racism is everybody's problem. As McGhee shows; it was bigoted lending policies that laid the ground for the 2008 financial crisis. There can be little prospect of tackling global climate change until America's zero-sum delusions are defeated. Read more Specifications by Heather McGhee (Author) 2021 Profile Books Ltd Language : English Print length : 448 pages ISBN-10 : 1788169646 ISBN-13 : 978-1788169646 Dimensions : 16.2 x 3.9 x 24 cm