The Haves and Have-Yachts

‘A field guide to the super-rich … Evan Osnos, a writer for the New Yorker, gained access to the world of the 0.00001 per cent and reports on their thinking and behaviour, their manners and delusions. Sure, it’s not the toughest beat but a hoot to chronicle – and even more fun to read’ * Sunday Times *
‘An eye-opening account of superyachts, the billionaires who buy them, and what it all means for the rest of us … [a] droll and timely analysis of extreme wealth’ * Guardian, Book of the Day *
‘Beneath the laughs, there is a serious point. Osnos chronicles how business leaders, notably Donald Trump and Elon Musk, see money and political power as two sides of the same coin’ * The Times, Books of the Year 2025 *
‘There is something of the Hogarthian morality tale about the stories … wonderfully salacious’ * London Standard *
‘A beautifully written and often amusing climb to the very top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs’ – Rana Foroohar * Financial Times *
‘Toggling between extravagances like simulated World War II battles and dueling luxury disaster refuges, Osnos takes the reader deep into our new Gilded Age’ * New York Times *
‘A collection of essays on the various insanities of the contemporary ultrarich … ‘The Floating World’ makes for a great introduction, not just thorough but also funny. Even funnier, though more alarming, is ‘Survival of the Richest’ … they are all examples of superb, dogged journalism. Osnos writes well and fact-checks his material obsessively. Furthermore, the issues he raises are profound’ – Bryan Appleyard * Literary Review *
‘Revelatory’ – Rosemary Goring * Herald (Scotland) *
‘A thoroughly reported and spryly narrated – and deeply maddening – tour of extreme wealth’ * Kirkus *
‘Surely all but the most gullible can conclude that America’s regime deserves to be called oligarchy – rule by the wealthy few. How did the US reach this point? … Osnos’ book, subtitled Dispatches on the Ultrarich, provides some important answers’ * UnHerd *

Evan Osnos has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. His most recent book, Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, was a New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, which won the National Book Award. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, where he shared two Pulitzer Prizes. He lives with his wife and children near Washington, DC.

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