Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World - Hardcoverby Anupreeta Das (Author) From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades and an eye opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires. Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first heralded as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder next morphed into a ruthless