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You are here: Home / Books / Twilight of the Elites: We Have A Winner!

Twilight of the Elites: We Have A Winner!

by Anne Laurie|  June 12, 20129:36 pm| 45 Comments

This post is in: Books, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Our Awesome Meritocracy

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The Gods of Randomness have spoken, and the signed hardback of Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy goes to Comment #23 — geg6. Congratulations!
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If you are one of the other entrants, Twilight of the Elites is also available for Kindle, audiobook or Audible. Amazon’s even offering a special deal with Maddow’s Drift…

Thanks to everyone who commented, and I hope to post my review within the week.

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45Comments

  1. 1.

    Baud

    June 12, 2012 at 9:37 pm

    The contest was RIGGED!
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    .
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    Congrats, geg6. I hope you have a photo ID.

  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    June 12, 2012 at 9:38 pm

    Let the bitter caterwauling commence!

  3. 3.

    David Koch

    June 12, 2012 at 9:39 pm

    RECOUNT!

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 12, 2012 at 9:44 pm

    Well done, geg6.

    :: POUT ::

    Ordering my Kindle copy now.

  5. 5.

    Raven

    June 12, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    congrats geg6.

  6. 6.

    Valdivia

    June 12, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I was going to pout too! ;)

    COngrats to geg6.

  7. 7.

    Egg Berry

    June 12, 2012 at 9:55 pm

    Should we expect a book report?

  8. 8.

    beltane

    June 12, 2012 at 9:55 pm

    Congrats to geg6. Nice to see the book go to a frequent commenter.

    The book must be excellent since it made David Brooks all pissy.

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    June 12, 2012 at 9:56 pm

    @Valdivia: I can’t pout for her. She’s too much fun and the work Dawg worships her. I can say damn yinzers though. :)

  10. 10.

    piratedan

    June 12, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    congrats geg6!

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 12, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    @Valdivia:

    More and more, I am thinking we’re twins separated at birth :-)

  12. 12.

    Baud

    June 12, 2012 at 10:02 pm

    @beltane:

    The book must be excellent since it made David Brooks all pissy.

    I expect Brooks will write his own book in response. Possible titles include Dawn of the Elites, Revenge of the Elites, and The Elites Strike Back.

  13. 13.

    Valdivia

    June 12, 2012 at 10:03 pm

    @Yutsano:

    but pouting is so fun!! :)

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    yes me too :D

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 12, 2012 at 10:07 pm

    @Yutsano:

    I can’t pout for her.

     Don’t pout for me, dear Yutsano
    The Hayes book  , I never read it. 

  15. 15.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    June 12, 2012 at 10:12 pm

    Congrats geg6.

  16. 16.

    Bizono

    June 12, 2012 at 10:12 pm

    Off topic – where did the phrase “Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed” originate?

  17. 17.

    Valdivia

    June 12, 2012 at 10:15 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    OMG. So funny.
    And I hate that song because of all the Evita papers I had to read when I was teaching freshmen Lat Am history, that song played in my head over and over. SO you made it the impossible possible, making me like that.

  18. 18.

    dmsilev

    June 12, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    @Bizono: It’s an adaptation of an older phrase about communism. I don’t know who is to thank for the adaptation, but thanks are definitely due to that person.

  19. 19.

    Warren Terra

    June 12, 2012 at 10:17 pm

    If it had to go to someone other than me, at least it went to a longtime commenter. Congratulations to Geg6.

  20. 20.

    The Dangerman

    June 12, 2012 at 10:20 pm

    Crud. Oh, well, I’ll hope for better luck with “Elites, After Dark”.

  21. 21.

    Bizono

    June 12, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    @dmsilev: It’s a terrific adaptation for which I find regular use.

  22. 22.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    June 12, 2012 at 10:28 pm

    the signed hardback of Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy goes to Comment #23

    Bloody Illuminati.

  23. 23.

    mclaren

    June 12, 2012 at 10:28 pm

    The random number generator was only pseudorandom, with a strong bias. I can prove it with calculus.

  24. 24.

    MikeJ

    June 12, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    @mclaren: What do small stones have to do with it?

  25. 25.

    JenJen

    June 12, 2012 at 10:33 pm

    WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE, geg6??

    So awesome that it was you! Hooray!!

  26. 26.

    Lojasmo

    June 12, 2012 at 10:35 pm

    If somebody gad to win, I wish it had been me.

    Congrats, geg6

  27. 27.

    Yutsano

    June 12, 2012 at 10:35 pm

    @JenJen: Does Lord Stanley know you’re a birfer?

  28. 28.

    BGinCHI

    June 12, 2012 at 10:46 pm

    I assume that geg only has 10 minutes to respond.

    Release the next random number!

    /Chicago-style politics

  29. 29.

    PurpleGirl

    June 12, 2012 at 10:51 pm

    Congrats, geg6.

  30. 30.

    gbear

    June 12, 2012 at 10:56 pm

    Twilight of the Elites is also available for Kindle, audiobook or Audible

    Yeah, but those involve money.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 12, 2012 at 10:59 pm

    @Valdivia:

    you made it the impossible possible, making me like that.

    LOL. I guess my work here is done.

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 12, 2012 at 11:03 pm

    @Phoenician in a time of Romans:

    Ah jeez, I came THISCLOSE to saying something about Robert Anton Wilson and for some reason didn’t think anyone would know what I was talking about.

    I was forgetting for a minute there that this is BALLOON JUICE, BITCHEZ and that pretty much everyone here would get the #23 reference.

    I’m too old for this.

  33. 33.

    Joseph Nobles

    June 12, 2012 at 11:07 pm

    BOOOOO. BOOOOOOO, I SAY, BOOOOOOO.

    Congrats, geg6.

    Ahem. BOOOOOOOOO.

  34. 34.

    Linnaeus

    June 12, 2012 at 11:24 pm

    I’m betting the random number generator was made by Diebold.

  35. 35.

    jayackroyd

    June 12, 2012 at 11:46 pm

    The book’s really great. I’ve got about a dozen pages to go. Chris really clearly makes the case for the pursuit of an unachievable meritocracy is a death spiral.

  36. 36.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    June 12, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    Well played Geg6!!! Oh by the way message from David Rockefeller from the CFR, you buy the first round at next week’s CFR’s Kegger at George Soros’ estate!

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    June 12, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    It’s also available for the Nook.

  38. 38.

    Steeplejack

    June 12, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    @Bizono:

    Can’t find anything earlier than a reference to Digby in February 2006.

  39. 39.

    IrishGirl

    June 13, 2012 at 12:14 am

    It’s so unfair…Hayes has a TV show and a book and he looks like he’s only 12 years old. But I’m not old and bitter….lol

    Actually I have a great deal of respect for his intellect and insight…am off to purchase the kindle version now.

  40. 40.

    geg6

    June 13, 2012 at 5:41 am

    OMG! Seriously? I NEVER win ANYTHING!

    Gotta get ready for work, but I’ll email you my address, Anne Laurie. You’ve made my day!

  41. 41.

    Riilism

    June 13, 2012 at 6:33 am

    Hayes has such pretty eyes. I wish he’d loose the glasses more frequently. Sigh….

  42. 42.

    Tokyokie

    June 13, 2012 at 8:11 am

    Drat! Missed by 14. But if you convert “GeG” to numerals and subtract “6,” then eliminate the post itself since it’s obviously a fake, then I WIN!!!!!!!!! You can send me the book via book rate mail.

  43. 43.

    brantl

    June 13, 2012 at 8:53 am

    Shit. Congratulations, Geg6, but still. Shit.

  44. 44.

    Kathy

    June 13, 2012 at 9:11 am

    @Steeplejack: And on iBooks. I have a couple of gift cards I haven’t used yet. Any word on a book club for this?

  45. 45.

    latinist

    June 13, 2012 at 11:54 am

    When is the sequel, “Twilight of the Elites: New Moon of the Elites,” going to be coming out?

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