{"id":171546,"date":"2025-06-09T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171546\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:59:10","slug":"private-equity-and-the-death-of-the-american-dream-by-megan-greenwell-book-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171546\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell Book Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t                        \t<img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" style=\"margin-bottom:0;width:75%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/f35d5115e8e308c1088fc703e2eb86dc.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Publisher<\/p>\n<p>Dey Street Books<\/p>\n<p>\n\t                        \t\t\tA work of eportage and a indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the effects of private equity takeovers.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t                        \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t                                    \tWhat The Reviewers Say\n\t                                    <\/p>\n<p>A deeply reported, briskly paced and highly disturbing account &#8230; Greenwell has written an essential guide to an industry that operates largely in the shadows &#8230; Despite her immersion in this predatory world, she remains surprisingly optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                \t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bad-company-megan-greenwell-book-review-c2cdfcf086885eebcd46cf9743ab2b7a\" class=\"see_more_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Review &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She helps readers understand this perplexing topic by sharing relatable stories. This book will appeal to those who are interested in business, economics and finance.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                \t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/products\/9810318\" class=\"see_more_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Review &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greenwell\u2019s debut does important work &#8230; She carefully demonstrates the human cost of an industry playbook that prizes cutting workers, slashing services, and raising prices &#8230; Greenwell also finds reason for hope in her subjects\u2019 nascent activism &#8230; An effective, humane look at financial practices hobbling venerable institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                \t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/megan-greenwell\/bad-company-3\/\" class=\"see_more_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Review &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                \t\t\t\t\t\t                \t\t\t\t\t                \t\t<a class=\"bookmarks_detail_see_all_reviews\" style=\"float:right;font-size:12px;\" href=\"https:\/\/bookmarks.reviews\/reviews\/\/all\/bad-company-private-equity-and-the-death-of-the-american-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See All Reviews &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<br class=\"clear\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Publisher Dey Street Books A work of eportage and a indictment of the private equity industry told through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,51,2766,77,71371,22064,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-171546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-culture","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-megan-greenwell","13":"tag-non-fiction","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114656127960952323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}