Adrift: America in 100 Charts

The best thing about this book is you don't have to read it beginning to end — you just flip through & look at each chart on its own. Each chart has some text about it on the right, but you don't need to have read the previous sections to make sense of any chart.

The material spans this striking graph on minimum wage gaps (it should be $22/hr given increased national productivity) and several charts on friendship, loneliness and other social ills. There are also beautiful illustrations that kind of take your breath away (4th pic). The format is great — a larger book than usual, would be a great coffee book to flip through & spend a minute or 10 hours with.

This was an exceptional wake-up call. Truth in facts and graphs. No polarizing nonsense here, just straight facts to help you decide for yourself the direction this country is headed (hint: not a good direction). The first step to fixing this country's issues is to understand the facts and how badly we've screwed things up. That's the baseline here in this book, but Scott manages to help us find a way through it and move forward. Buy this and don't forget to buy it for friends and family this holiday season. We need Scott everywhere. And FFS, convince this guy to run for office. Watch his chats on Maher, follow his podcast, and follow his Twitter. The dude is a modern philosophical genius, and not too shabby with economics.

My copy arrived today, loving it so far. If you're a fan of Scott Galloway's, this should be an automatic buy. More than just a book, it's a great object. It's beautiful in hardcover, with brilliant illustrations and insightful charts. If you don't know Galloway's work, this is the best intro to his heartfelt and powerful message about matters of policy and economy (The Four and Post Corona focus more on business). Agree or disagree with Galloway, he makes a powerful case for his views, and gives you plenty of idea and ammunition to develop your own.

The charts are a lot of fun to flip through. They get the stars. They raise many thought provoking questions. The author could have asked those good questions, but no. The author's narrative discussions are mostly the kind of personalized, left-of-center moralizing and spitballing you'd expect from someone stuck in academia. And he's seems to contradict himself by lamenting polarization and the loss of the connective tissue of our society while noting the new ways in which we are all connected by the Internet. The charts are useful, the commentary is detached, and feels like a classroom lecture by a know-it-all professor. At one point, he says Trump was "an apprentice masquerading as a president," while Biden is the dry cleaner trying to erase the stain on America. That hasn't aged well, given current trends. Try as I might, I could find no chart or data to back up this statement, and it's the kind of polarizing observation that makes the careful reader assume he is cherry-picking the charts to advance an agenda instead of starting a useful conversation. Enjoy the charts, skip the collegiate narratives, especially the defense of Modern Monetary Theory. Save us!

This book is an incoherent amalgamation of one sided political arguments with no clear hypothesis, solution, or conclusion. It is easy to throw stones in a glass house. I wouldn't be surprised if this was written by a ghost writer. I hoped for better. You can hear all of these opinions from Scott on YouTube. Not worth the money.

Highly recommend this latest Galloway book. Eye opening stats about the US presented in an easily digestible format.

Level of insight one would expect from a government employee.

Every American should read this book. The data is clear and well presented and you can tell that Scott is writing this as someone who loves his country and wants to wake us all up. I will say that there were points where I was incredibly sad about the state of our country, so I was relieved in the end that he presents some clear suggestions and options that allow us to change course. I only hope enough people read this, are open to making some of those changes, and SPEAK OUT in order for those changes to actually happen.. I am recommending this book to everyone I know.

It shouldn't take such detailed research to describe the obvious crisis of our time, but unfortunately we have to carve our way through the layers of narratives created to protect calcified greed. I'm glad Scott Galloway has done the work, and done it in a form that not only can be easily digested, but should also resist at least the first waves of attack by the dysfunctional entrenched interests he exposes.

OMG where do I start? They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, a well constructed graph may be worth ten times that. Without going in to great detail about exactly what is all covered in this book, I will just say that the subject matter is immensely pertinent right now for our country.

This book caused me to rethink many issues and the graphs led me to think of many questions and a desire to know more. "Think before you speak and read before for think" is good advice and this is definitely a read that will affect your thinking.

In my opinion, we need someone like Scott Galloway in an advisory position in our government.