Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us

by Evan Mandery

Book Overview

The front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive "Ivy-plus" schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620976951
• ISBN13: 9781620976951
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"