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A review by thomas_edmund
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
5.0
The basic of Klaas' work is to explore the adage of absolute power corrupting. Of all the non-fiction I've been reading regardless of topic this has to be one of the best balanced in terms of historic anecdotes, interviews, data and evidence and explanation I've read. It's one of those books that I just got absorbed in and then suddenly was like 'wait, its almost done?'
With an interesting non-judgemental but not so open minded their head falls out approach, the book explores many angles of power, ranging from local (e.g. police forces) to presidential and corporate. The main themes of the book are what sorts of people are attracted to power, what sorts of systems encourage or discourage corruption and finally how to encourage more legitimately competent people to power.
There is no particular stand out parts (because its all good) but I guess what stood out to me is some of the bizarre and horrific things people have done in positions of power whether tyrannical Home Owner Association presidents or Tyrannical genocidal presidents the book basically speaks for itself in terms of relevant.
Probably the final note is that this book felt quite positive, the strategies for reducing corruption didn't feel as out of reach as some worldly solutions feel right now, which was nice!
With an interesting non-judgemental but not so open minded their head falls out approach, the book explores many angles of power, ranging from local (e.g. police forces) to presidential and corporate. The main themes of the book are what sorts of people are attracted to power, what sorts of systems encourage or discourage corruption and finally how to encourage more legitimately competent people to power.
There is no particular stand out parts (because its all good) but I guess what stood out to me is some of the bizarre and horrific things people have done in positions of power whether tyrannical Home Owner Association presidents or Tyrannical genocidal presidents the book basically speaks for itself in terms of relevant.
Probably the final note is that this book felt quite positive, the strategies for reducing corruption didn't feel as out of reach as some worldly solutions feel right now, which was nice!