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Acknowledgments
One of the more insidious aspects of meritocratic indoctrination is that it teaches you to believe that you wholly own your accomplishments. As I’ve tried to make clear in the book, it’s a tempting notion but a dangerous one. As is the case with any project of this size, this book is the product of the labor of far, far more people than the one person whose name appears on the cover. A Nate Silver post at his old site FiveThirtyEight, that showed General Social Survey data about America’s declining trust in their institutions over time, first crystallized the idea for the book. And it was during a long, loquacious walk I took with Dan Benaim through Washington, DC, in 2009 that I was first able to articulate just what it was I wanted to write a book about.
Throughout the development of the book, I’ve had hundreds of conversations with friends and colleagues about its main themes, and those conversations inform every page of the work. Our crew in DC comprised an intellectually vibrant and loving community during our time there: the aforementioned Dan Benaim, Meg Rooney, Dan Lurie, Elizabeth Drew, Kareem Saleh, Emily Parker, Elana Berkowitz, Ed Al-Husseiny, and Phoebe Connelly. Ezra Klein provided indispensable feedback and encouragement, particularly during the grueling proposal process, and Ryan Grim gave me wonderful advice about navigating the process. Josh Segall is the single best person in the world to sit on a long drive with and talk ideas for three hours. Dave Moore and Brian Cook read more of the Internet than I do, and it’s my full-time job. Each offered constant intellectual support. Dan Berwick gave me a place to crash and an endless supply of sharp insights during my trips to Cambridge. Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Cassie Fennell, Eric Klinenberg, Jeff Lane, and Tom Schaller generously allowed me to borrow their vast academic knowledge. Other friends have also kindly engaged my years-long monomaniacal obsession with institutional distrust and elite failure: the Hunter crew, who I’ve known since adolescence and look forward to growing old with, Andrei Scheinkman, Elise Zelechowski, Paul Smith, and Michelle Mills, and our many beloved Chicago friends.
A number of people read early portions of the manuscript. Henry Farrell slogged his way through the entirety of an early version and gave characteristically astute (but gentle!) criticism. Steve Teles, Father Bill Dailey, Heather Parton (better known as Digby), Paul Smith, Rick Perlstein, ............

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