![]() The New York Times bestseller was the biggest blockbuster in the history of the Harvard University Press, and these kind of sales for a book that’s extremely difficult to lift, let alone read, are saying something. At the time I joked it was about to become the most popular book that people bought and didn’t finish since “The Satanic Verses,” but there’s no denying that Piketty’s thesis struck a chord with the public. I was working at a bookstore in 2014 when Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” became a sensation, and if you’d asked me what was about to replace “Gone Girl” as our most requested title, a French academic’s 696-page hardcover doorstop detailing the history of economic inequality wouldn’t exactly have been my first guess. ![]() ![]() A still from the documentary "Capital in the Twenty-First Century." (Courtesy Kino Lorber) This article is more than 3 years old. ![]()
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