Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us calls "the exquisite

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Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us calls "the exquisiteHailed as a "staggering portrait of inequality in America" (Philip Dray) 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. In a "lively and trenchant" (Washington Monthly) account, Evan Mandery a Harvard graduate and current professor at a public college that serves low and middle income students reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive "Ivy