Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

Silverman, Jacob

ISBN 10: 1399419986 / ISBN 13: 9781399419987

Published by Bloomsbury Continuum (edition Unabridged), 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum (edition Unabridged)
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399419986
• ISBN 13: 9781399419987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Unabridged.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2025
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025

'Makes a convincing case for how tech became radicalized' BLOOMBERG

What happens if the world's richest and most powerful men decide to dismantle democracy?

In Gilded Rage, New York Times bestselling author Jacob Silverman takes us inside the surreal, high-stakes world of Silicon Valley. This is the story of the political awakening and radicalization of a cabal of tech billionaires and trillionaires and their descent into ideological extremism. Flush with cash from the zero-interest era, addicted to their own mythology, these men have began reshaping the world in their image - and it should terrify us all.

At the center is Elon Musk, the mogul whose obsession with the 'woke mind virus' has turned him from a tech innovator to an ideological crusader. But Musk is just the beginning. Silverman maps a sprawling network of radicalized elites - from Peter Thiel and JD Vance to the financiers bankrolling Donald Trump - who are using their platforms and their money to ensure a political revolution that's already underway.

We meet the billionaires funding life-extension labs and embracing apocalyptic visions of AI. We examine the populist rhetoric that is leading to the ruthless dismantling of democratic norms. And we enter the strange, darkly comic world of the tech-oligarchy where libertarian dreams meet authoritarian impulses, and where the people with the most influence over our lives are the least accountable.

Silverman travels from San Francisco to Miami, New York to DC, following a movement that's rewriting the rules and oftentimes fighting a war against reality itself. With sharp reporting and a cast of extraordinary characters, Gilded Rage is a gripping, essential dispatch from the front lines of the billionaire revolution.

About the Author

JACOB SILVERMAN is the author of Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection and co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, which was a New York Times Bestseller. He's a contributing editor at The New Republic and The Baffler, and his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. He lives in New York.