Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us

by Evan Mandery

An eye-opening look at how America's elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich rich--making it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us today

Hailed as a "staggering portrait of inequality in America" (Philip Dray) Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. In a "lively and trenchant" (Washington Monthly)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620979187
• ISBN13: 9781620979181
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 400 Pages