Charlie Eaton. Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 203p. Hardcover, $23.30 (ISBN: 978-0-226-72042-5).

Charlie Eaton has written a book exploring topic many of us are aware and probably appalled by—the insidious relationship between high finance higher education. What done, however, is put names to the connections provided plenty data back up his assertions in Bankers Ivory Tower . This text that anyone connected academia, including librarians, alumni, unfortunate group debt-ridden nongraduates, can benefit from. In this well-documented book, where never becomes too intrusive, shines light on people (private equity bankers hedge fund investors) both emerging from then influencing Ivies most selective universities. Their influence also extends for-profit university system (referred as “the bottom”) what calls middle” or less-selective public While author’s conclusions not far-reaching situation demands, he makes an argument for collective action combat widening socioeconomic inequality disproportionately harms Black brown folks.