HARDING READ 2020/21: VIEW FROM THE TOP BY MICHAEL LINDSAY: An inside look at how people in power see and shape the world. Ten years in the making, View From the Top is a true achievement. Books on power and leadership rarely present insights that are fundamentally new, and they seldom ground their conclusions in original scientific research. This remarkable book does both. It presents the key results of sociologist Michael Lindsay's unprecedented Platinum Study, an examination of how the most powerful people in the United States operate.