Gilded Rage
Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 9 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781399419987
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 236x154x32 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 827
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Short description:
A searing insight into the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, David Sacks and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.
MoreLong description:
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2025
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025
'Lively and provocative' FINANCIAL TIMES
'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 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.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: You Could Make a Lot of Money Here
1. December 14, 2016
2. Thiel and the New Alignment
3. Tech Libertarians Embrace the Security State
4. The Digital Authoritarian Style
5. Killing Twitter, Building X
6. The Saudi Influence behind Twitter and X
7. Learning to Hate the Place You Love
8. Billionaires v. The People of San Francisco
9. A Working Model
10. Finding The Exit
11. The Great Solano County Land Grab
12. It's Free Money
13. The Crypto Swamp
14. The Tap Turns Off
15. The Companies Suck
16. TikTok, China, and the Moneyman of the Moment
17. The Road to Vance
18. Didn't the Last Guy Go to Prison?
19. Best to Be Low-Key
20. Someone Has to Win
21. Election Day
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
List of Figures
Index
