Praise for Little Bosses Everywhere: How The Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
A Best Book of 2025: The Washington Post, NPR, Publisher’s Weekly
“Reads like a thriller . . . masterfully illuminates the tricks and sleights of hand that in multilevel marketing are simply the rules of doing business.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Gripping and instructive. . . . Lucid and engaging . . . . [Bridget Read] sketches a vivid portrait of a cultish culture.”—The Washington Post
“A great explanatory account of the industry, connecting big, nebulous ideas like neoliberalism to actual concrete things.”—The New Yorker
“Engaging. . . . Read names the leaders who benefit [from MLM], and in doing so, she delivers a damning portrait of those who take advantage—and she humanizes the people they rip off. Investigating an industry notorious for doublespeak and euphemism, she calls things what they are.”—The Atlantic
“Fast-paced and fascinating. . . . [Read] lays out in meticulous detail how companies like Amway, Mary Kay, and Herbalife make the failures [of MLM] inevitable.”—The New York Review of Books