Michael Mechanic Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Michael Mechanic is a successful American author.

He resides in Oakland, California. He is married and has two children with his wife, Laura. They reside together in California with a collection of various animals. These include a striped cat named Phelps who is sixteen years old. Their kids have since grown and have flown the coop.

In addition to being an author, Michael has also served as a longtime senior editor working at Mother Jones magazine. There he not only writes but also edits just about everything, from feature stories to essays to breaking news.

Michael Mechanic was born in Madison, Wisconsin, where he grew up. He would go on to higher learning and earn degrees in the fields of biochemistry as well as cellular and developmental biology from UC Berkeley and Harvard. Then he decided to go back to Cal again to get a master’s degree in journalism. In his spare time, he plays five musical instruments.

Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live– And How Their Wealth Harms Us All is the debut book from Michael Mechanic. If you’re interested in money or how the extremely rich live and are interested in the topic of how this reality harms all of us, then you are in the right place. A copy of this book is all that it takes to inform you further on this fascinating topic.

Many people have harbored fantasies about being very wealthy, and it makes sense. Hitting the jackpot and striking it rich is one of the most resilient of the American fantasies that exists, and stays consistent through times of war, times of peace, recessions, expansions, economic downturns and pandemics.

People dream of the jackpot, the payday that can change their life, the big exit that allows them to do whatever they want instead of working day in and day out. The numbers support this, too. Americans collectively spent a total of 81 billion dollars in 2019 on lottery tickets. It’s worth nothing that this sum actually surpasses many of the GDPs of many nations.

Many people also fantasize about what they would do if they came into this amount of money, as well. We would potentially get out of those essential day jobs that we carry, get out of the small living spaces that we occupy, get rid of our debts entirely, buy that one thing that we have always been obsessed with having, and help out our friends and family.

So rare is it that we can follow the fantasy to its conclusion, considering the psychological, social and societal downsides of such affluence as well as the fact that it is rare that so few are able to possess it. So what is it really like to have this type of riches in an era of economic differences such as these that we are experiencing?

Just how mind boggling are the access and opportunities to this type of wealth, and how problematic are the downsides? Would the experience be different depending on whether the money is earned or not, where it is coming from, and your gender, sex, or race? And how does our longing for affluence and our belief in social mobility help to explain how we have arrived as a nation at the point where forty percent of Americans do not have any wealth at all?

These are all valid questions, and they are ones that Jackpot not only asks but makes its mission to explore. It is the result of reporting, research, and dozens of interviews that have been conducted with everyone from superstar coders to inheritors, investors, lobbyists, lottery winners, lawmakers, company founders, executives, sports agents, academics, wealth professionals, realtors, and more.

The result is a fascinating book that is not only full of characters and humors but also serious questions and a journey into the fantasy of American wealth and where it has collectively taken us. Pick up a copy of Jackpot by Michael Mechanic to experience all of this topic in fascinating detail for yourself!