Careerist is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 495 anagrams from letters in careerist (aceeirrst).
First recorded in 1905-10; career + -ist
In an age when we needed a visionary, he is merely a careerist.
What I think the book is, is a critique of presenting it from a careerist perspective.