A work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy that has remade American society.
Gripping and instructive ... More about the scammers and their stratagems than it is about the scammed. Even by the end of the book, it remains somewhat difficult to fathom why so many people are taken in by what seems like such an obvious grift ... Nonetheless, the history Read recounts allows readers to infer how MLM might win over adherents ... A vivid portrait.
