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Author of Man in the Mirror (coming 9/29/26), The Persuaders, Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling.

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About Anand

Anand Giridharadas is the author of the forthcoming Man in the Mirror (9/29/26), the New York Times bestseller The Persuaders, the international bestseller Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling. A former foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times for more than a decade, he has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Time. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC. He is the publisher of the newsletter The Ink.

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Man in the Mirror

The story of a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation

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