The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.

The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently, wrote David Graeber. This new collection brings together the renowned anthropologist, author and activists most visionary essays, showing him imagining a new understanding of the past and a future based on humans' fundamental freedom.

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, and ranging across the biggest issues of our time inequality, technology, the identity of the West, democracy, art, power, anger, mutual aid and protest Graebers essays challenge the old assumptions about political life. Despite converging political, economic, and ecological crises, our politics is still dominated by either business as usual or nostalgia for a mythical past. Instead, Graeber shows himself to be a trenchant critic of the order of things, driven by a bold imagination and a passionate hope that our world can be different.

The incisive, entertaining and urgent essays collected in The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World make for essential reading. They are a profound reminder of Graeber's enduring significance as an inspiring and necessary thinker.