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Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Alternative Title: "I'm Great! I'm in with the IN Crowd" 
This book takes a LOT of time to say very little. In summary, here's what the author takes several hundred pages to tell us:
a) The world is ruled by an informal group of about 6,000 people;
b) I [the author] am one of them! Aren't I special?
c) I know who the others are---but I'm not going to tell you!
d) They all get together once each year in Davos;
e) Davos is quaint, and has good restaurants, but inadequate lodging; and,
f) Oh, did I forget to tell you? I'M one of the... more info
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bunch of unorganized words
I borrowed this book from a public library. Otherwise, I would be regret ever buying this book. The author must be a powerful person as I can't see how the publisher would publish such a book with lot of words, with little meat. The flow of thoughts are poorly organized. The only take I have from this book is Davos is a cool place to be when all the big names are in town.
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Globalization - yes- but 'nationalism' now more so 
The world is ruled by an elite class , the superclass consisting in roughly six- thousand people, overwhelmingly male. This Superclass includes not only the Big Business elite, but heads of State, and even religious leaders like the Pope, and crime - bosses. These people, the one in a million who influence many millions are part of a global structure in which they trade and deal with each other.
They are the few who influence the many.
Rothkopf takes a tour around the world with them, speaks... more info
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Tedious Fluff
I read this book hoping for some insight into the dynamics of the global power divide, and what those at the top of the power pile are doing to exacerbate the have/have not split or (possibly) ameliorate certain aspects of it. That's not what I got. Instead, I plodded through 300+ vapid pages that told me exactly two things: the modern aristocracy enjoy hanging around with people like themselves, and so does the author of the book.
Mr. Rothkopf makes a couple of mild points that are accurate enough, as... more info
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