Big Philanthropy's Lost Children


Foundation: Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

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Rumaan Alam's recent novel, Entitlement, offers insights into the effects of money and power on the professionals who work in establishment philanthropy.

Alam's novel has empathy for members of this class, as represented by Brooke Orr, even as it is also sharply critical of them.

Alam gently and incrementally, though speedily at the end, brings the reader along with Brooke as she moves along this spectrum from internally fretful to entitled.

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