The Haves and Have-Yachts

The New York Times Bestseller

Chosen as a book of the year by the New Yorker, Financial Times, The Times and Sunday Times.

"A field guide to the super-rich ... a hoot to chronicle – and even more fun to read" — Sunday Times

The one percent now hold more of America's wealth than they did in the heyday of the Carnegies and Rockefellers, and their habits cast a longer shadow than ever before. With deft storytelling and meticulous reporting, Evan Osnos exposes the hidden world of the ultrarich in all its outrageous, fabulous, ridiculous detail: superyachts, luxury bunkers, private gigs, wealth managers, elite tax dodges and a torrent of political donations.

Osnos's essays are an entertaining, unsettling and eye-opening wake-up call – a case against complacency in the face of unchecked excess and staggering disparities of wealth and power. As the choices of the ultrarich ripple through our lives, The Haves and Have-Yachts couldn't be more relevant to today's world.

"A prestige romp" — New York Times

"Superb" — Literary Review

"Charming" — Washington Post

"Important" — Irish Times

"Entertaining and unsettling" — Financial Times