The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There

From two leading economists comes a groundbreaking new portrait of the hidden fortunes of Main Street business owners-ordinary Americans who built extraordinary wealth and are quietly rewriting the rules of money and power. Most people think the path to great wealth runs through Wall Street or Silicon Valley. We're told you must be a Zuckerberg, a Musk, or a Jamie Dimon to get rich. But this story is wrong. Drawing on unprecedented data from a decade of research and vivid real-life stories of entrepreneurs-from a self-made hot-dog stand billionaire to the heirs of an auto dealer-Zidar and Zwick reveal a surprising truth: prosperity is more attainable, more widely distributed, and closer to home than we imagine. A multitude of Americans have built staggering fortunes by running often unglamorous businesses far from the spotlight. A quiet revolution in the business world-the rise of "pass-through" firms like S-corporations and partnerships-supercharged this wealth, channeling vast income