The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group
By: Dan Briody
3.56
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
A penetrating look at the company at the nexus of big business, government, and defense The Carlyle…
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1. Chaos: Making a New Science
By: James Gleick
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary… read more
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"IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
2. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
By: Roger Lowenstein
4.20
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk … read more
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3. Liar's Poker
By: Michael Lewis
4.15
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael L… read more
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"Buy potatoes,"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"A commercial banker wasn’t any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead."-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
4. A Civil Action
By: Jonathan Harr
4.09
Format: None pages,
This is the true story of an epic courtroom showdown. Two of the nation's largest corporations stan… read more
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5. The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
By: Connie Bruck
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He i… read more
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6. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made … read more
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7. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more
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8. The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
By: Daniel Ammann
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (includi… read more
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9. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
10. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
By: G. Edward Griffin
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Zhong Yang Yin Xing shisutemugababuru, Bu Kuang , inhurewoYin kiQi koshi, Zhan Zheng woHeng Chang H… read more
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11. Den of Thieves
By: James B. Stewart
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thievestells the full story of the insider-trading scan… read more
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12. Elon Musk
By: Walter Isaacson
4.40
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more
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"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk
13. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
14. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
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From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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15. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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4.24
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"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
16. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
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17. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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18. The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group
By: Dan Briody
3.56
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
A penetrating look at the company at the nexus of big business, government, and defense The Carlyle… read more
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