Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing the iconic and bestselling David
Graeber's most important essays and interviews. "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is
that it is something that we make and could just as easily make differently " wrote David
Graeber. A renowned anthropologist activist and author of such classic books as Debt and the
breakout New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything (with David Wengrow) Graeber was as
well-known for his sharp lively essays as he was for his iconic role in the Occupy movement
and his paradigm-shifting tomes. There are converging political economic and ecological
crises and yet our politics is dominated by either business as usual or nostalgia for a
mythical past. Thinking against the grain Graeber was one of the few who dared to imagine a
new understanding of the past and a liberatory vision of the future--to imagine a social order
based on humans' fundamental freedom. In essays published over three decades and ranging across
the biggest issues of our time-- inequality technology the identity of "the West " democracy
art power anger mutual aid and protest--he challenges the old assumptions about political
life. A trenchant critic of the order of things and driven by a bold imagination and a
passionate commitment to human freedom he offers hope that our world can be different. During
a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair the incisive entertaining and urgent
essays collected in The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . . edited and with an
introduction by Nika Dubrovksy and with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit make for essential and
inspiring reading. They are a profound reminder of Graeber's enduring significance as an iconic
playful necessary thinker.
