The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund
by Anita Raghavan · 4 Jun 2013 · 575pp · 171,599 words
into the country’s oldest corporate dynasties, such as the sprawling Modi Group, with its interests in glass, rubber, and travel. No card in his Rolodex was left unflipped and no opportunity to network was squandered. He leaned on his father-in-law, Ratan Dayal, a longtime marketing executive at Burmah
…
, who was looking for investors in Galleon that were possible sources of inside information, punched in the name Anil Kumar, a contact in Rajaratnam’s Rolodex, nothing came up in the electronic list. He eventually found Kumar’s name, alongside that of an account holder, Manju Das, in the hard-copy
…
the sheaf of papers and noticed another name he’d come across months earlier. Rajiv Goel was one of the contacts in Rajaratnam’s voluminous Rolodex. Now it looked like Goel was also someone who happened to trade in Hilton stock before the Blackstone takeover. Hoping that these eerily prescient trades
…
’s aggressive strategy in the market. But the only thing making him a person of interest was the presence of his name in Rajaratnam’s Rolodex and the fact that he had access to inside information about AMD. There were no instant messages or emails before public announcements pointing to him
…
his boss. It was no secret that without Gupta, the Indian School of Business would not have gotten off the ground. Gupta marshaled his vast Rolodex of contacts to get the elites of corporate India to open up their wallets and contribute. But Rajaratnam’s $1 million donation was among the
…
he drilled down into Khan’s world. At the time, Friedman knew only that Shah was one of the hundreds of contacts in Khan’s Rolodex. He had no way of knowing that as a Moody’s analyst Shah had been briefed on the Hilton deal before it was announced. As
…
case and resorted to the they just don’t get it defense common among lawyers fighting insider trading charges. Prosecutors “misunderstand words like use your Rolodex, and be radio silent, and we need an edge, because they don’t understand the business that Mr. Rajaratnam is legitimately employed in,” Walden told
…
a subpoena for documents to Gupta seeking information about his investments, any communication with Rajaratnam at certain relevant times, any transfers of money, and his Rolodex. Getting the Rolodex ultimately turned out to be far more complicated than the SEC lawyers had imagined. Before Gupta would relinquish his
…
Rolodex, which included the numbers of famous figures including Bill Gates and Bill Clinton, his lawyers entered into a protracted back-and-forth over which numbers
…
former editor in chief of the Hindu, the largest newspaper in South India, opened up to me the most valuable possession a journalist has: his Rolodex, which he had cultivated through a remarkable forty-six-year career as one of the country’s finest journalists. Ram read the manuscript and offered
Bleeding Edge: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon · 16 Sep 2013 · 532pp · 141,574 words
little. “Last call for his ass.” Some days it seems like every lowlife in town has Tail ’Em and Nail ’Em on their grease-stained Rolodex. A number of phone messages have piled up on the answering machine, breathers, telemarketers, even a few calls to do with tickets currently active. After
…
glasses, medium height, yuppie demeanor. “Sorry to pull yiz away from work and shit. Say hello to Igor Dashkov, nice guy to have on your Rolodex.” Igor kisses Maxine’s hand and nods to Rocky. “She is not wearing wire, I hope.” “I’m wire-intolerant,” Maxine pretends to explain, “I
…
on charges of aggravated computer tampering, in connection with a federal insider-trading beef. Heidi’s first thought is, He still has me in his Rolodex? “You two were romantically involved?” “Not romantically. Baroquely maybe. Years ago.” “Was that before or after he got married?” “Thought you guys were from the
…
further away, thousands of miles from home, they’d be disoriented, easier to break. Now and who, among the previously unsuspected hundreds in Maxine’s Rolodex, would fit a description like that? Long after she’s surfaced again, left Eric to get on with his early morning, back among the unpoetic
…
clear way to get up and on with a day which is suddenly full of holes—family, friends, friends of friends, phone numbers on the Rolodex, just not there anymore . . . the bleak feeling, some mornings, that the country itself may not be there anymore, but being silently replaced screen by screen
…
. are gettin worried now,” tapping the dossier, “it’s cash-for-equity time.” “So I take it I’m off the case.” “But on my Rolodex forever.” “Spare her,” Cornelia breezing in. “He’s always telling me the same thing, don’t listen.” “Git outta here, ya ditzy broads, I got
…
to unfocus the complaining a little. “Well, I called hospitals. I called cops, TV news stations, bail-bond companies, then I started in on your Rolodex. What are you doing with Uncle Dizzy’s home number?” “We check in from time to time, he thinks I’m his parole officer.” “A
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
by William D. Cohan · 25 Dec 2015 · 1,009pp · 329,520 words
deal that I was involved in, and I wanted to let people know what I had done. I sat down at my desk with my Rolodex, and started calling everyone on my cards--classmates, associates, acquaintances--just to let them know. Grambling was one of the dozens of people I called
…
May 1980, around 8:00 p.m., Wilkis allowed Levine into Lazard's offices, and once there he began rifling through the desks, papers, and Rolodexes of the Lazard partners. According to Den of Thieves, Levine even admired Lou Perlmutter's "cache of Cuban cigars." Michel said later he discovered Levine
…
's style and generalist approach with predictably disastrous results. His edge is his extraordinary level of deal experience and his consummate judgment--plus a killer Rolodex. It is nearly impossible to ignore a phone call from Felix Rohatyn--regardless of whether you are a CEO, a politician, or even one of
…
like a priest and has a way of putting older men at ease" (neither was true if Felix was to be believed). "He has a Rolodex to kill for, and the guest lists at his Martha's Vineyard parties boggle his clients' minds, helping him win business and press. He flies
…
think he's Felix Rohatyn." The article described how Steve was "a yuppie version" of Felix, with his deal success, his media attention, his enormous Rolodex. Then there were the descriptions of the "widely coveted" invitations to the Rattners' apartment on Fifth Avenue, where the likes of Mickey Kantor, Vartan Gregorian
…
about coming to Lazard, the idea was for Jordan, a principal figure in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the ultimate FOB, to use his "platinum Rolodex" and vast corporate connections--at the time he served on ten corporate boards--to return Lazard to prominence with corporate CEOs during one of the
…
dominant M&A banker in Italy, completing twenty-two deals, with 60 percent market share, in 2001 alone. He was said to have the best Rolodex in Italy. He advised Pirelli on its EU7 billion takeover of Telecom Italia despite Pirelli being an investor in Mediobanca. He also advised Italenergia on
Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook
by Michael Lopp · 20 Jul 2010 · 336pp · 88,320 words
then, with these answers in hand, I'll explain why you should ignore them. Who are you leaving behind? I have a Rolodex. It's not actually a Rolodex, it's a list, and on that list is every single person whom I'll call when I do the start-up thing
…
. In each company I've worked at, I've had the Rolodex moment when I realize that someone I'm working with belongs on this list. It's a rare, wonderful moment. There's a risk when
…
aren't going to survive the transition to your new gig. There's also a chance that you've missed an obvious Rolodex candidate. The reality is: Inclusion on the Rolodex is defined by the ability to survive job changes, although, paradoxically, you won't actually know that for sure until you
…
of my inclusion criteria is that I see my relationship with this person as something larger than the current gig. If they're on the Rolodex, it means I believe our relationship is no longer defined by the current job, and there's no better way to test this hypothesis than
…
, during phone screens, Stalk Your Future Job Reveal, the, The Reveal revenge, and the Screw-Me scenario, You Might Be Lying reviews, yearly, No Surprises Rolodex and work relationships, Who are you leaving behind? routine meetings, importance of, Invest in the Boring rules of games, An Entertaining System, Discovery: From Confusion
Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
by James Andrew Miller · 8 Aug 2016 · 790pp · 253,035 words
percent of the net. Come see me at lunch.” He enjoyed playing the role of mentor to those young guys. RUSTY LEMORANDE, CAA Assistant: His Rolodex was massive. It was two large wheels on each end, the size of two large pizzas, and everybody in the business was in there. All
…
young that I didn’t know to ask the question “Did you have the rights?” My mother had Joan Didion’s phone number in her Rolodex, so I called Joan up and explained the mess. She said, “None of my books have ever been produced in film or television. I’m
…
. I don’t want anybody other than you.” And then he called me and says, “You gotta buy my Rolodex,” and I asked, “What is your Rolodex?” He explained, “I’ve got a really complicated computer Rolodex and I need it.” I’d said no to everything, but I said okay to his
…
Rolodex. So we made the deal. Sid Bass came over and we had a drink in celebration and then flew back to Los Angeles to meet
Executive Orders
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1996
on foreign policy. George Winston, outsider and plutocrat though he was, had initiated a quiet reexamination of his entire department, and Winston had on his Rolodex the number of every financial editor from Berlin to Tokyo, and was seeking out their views and counsel on his internal study. Most surprising of
…
, and before his promotion to network anchor, he'd been in Washington. He'd covered them all and knew them all. On his well-stuffed Rolodex was a card with every important name and number in town. Like any good reporter, he was connected. He could lift a phone and get
…
he'd learned anything at all, he'd learned that. Donner looked out his window and lifted his phone with one hand while flipping the Rolodex with the other. Ed, this is Tom. Just how good are those sources, and how quickly can I meet them? He couldn't hear the
…
that. He just needed a retort. John Plumber was no longer on his Christmas card list. Unfortunately, his direct line was still on Plumber's Rolodex. What a shame he couldn't change it. And he'd have to tell his secretary not to put this guy through anymore, at least
…
. Pharmaceutical houses, medical labs, like that. Who would I talk to about that? You serious? Yes, sir. Lorenz shrugged and pulled the card off his Rolodex. Here. THE BREAKFAST MEETING had taken a little time to arrange. Ambassador David L. Williams left his car, then was escorted into the Prime Minister
…
with a socket key and a very simple disarming code. Inside they found a few more photos, one, probably, of his son. They checked the Rolodex first, and there was the card for J. Sloan, with the number 536-4040, but no address. Tell me what you think, Loomis said. I
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
by Blake J. Harris · 12 May 2014
, and which gabby receptionists didn’t realize their gossip revealed vital pieces of information. Simply put, Kalinske had a Rolodex that put other men’s to shame. He still had that same Rolodex, but with its majority of contacts being in the toy business, he was now trying to build up a
…
’s eyes lit up at the mention of the famous directors. “I will let you know.” “Great,” Kalinske chirped, always pleased to show off his Rolodex. “Then let’s talk pricing for a second. Nintendo responded quicker than we expected, and we need to react.” On January 10, mere months after
…
looking for a backup plan. Speaking of which, there’s someone I need to see about that.” Although Kalinske was the undisputed king of the Rolodex, when it came to contacts in the technology and advertising industries, then Doug Glen had to be crowned some kind of prince at least. His
…
of team building, it would be helpful to find someone that SOJ might like working with.” “Message received,” Glen replied, already sifting through his mental Rolodex. “Given the current trajectory of our conversation, a question comes to mind.” “What’s that?” “Regardless of whether or not my efforts prove fruitful, have
…
, Miller, and everyone else he’d sold on his vision. “Jim, here’s what I’m going to do,” Kalinske said, now skimming through his Rolodex. “I think I have the name of someone who might be very interested in hearing about what SGI has to offer.” Kalinske scrolled past the
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
by Paulina Rowinska · 5 Jun 2024 · 361pp · 100,834 words
Tech relied on an Atlanta street map with a clear coordinate grid, a table relating the coordinates to their position along the curve, and two Rolodex card files.* To create the table, the researchers converted each pair of coordinates (horizontal and vertical) from the map into a single number representing its
…
relative distance from the beginning of the curve, a value which uniquely identified a delivery location. Both Rolodex files contained cards corresponding to current clients: one sorted alphabetically by clients’ names and one sorted numerically by their location along the space-filling curve
…
one of the four drivers. All each driver needed to do was to deliver the meals in the order provided by their part of the Rolodex. FIGURE 5.8: The meals should be delivered in the order represented by the infinite version of this curve. The dots represent the locations of
…
their location from the map, convert the coordinates to the position along the curve using the table, and insert two new cards into the two Rolodexes. If someone didn’t need lunch deliveries anymore, both of their cards would be removed. On average, this simple, intuitive routing system created routes longer
…
problem with n places (again, assuming symmetric distances and triangle inequality) won’t be worse than 1 + 0.5(log2n) times the true optimal solution. * Rolodex is a business card storage device, which allows the user to quickly navigate to a specific card by rolling them (hence the name: rolling + index
…
, ref2, ref3 Richardson, Lewis Fry ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 Rickey, V. Federick ref1, ref2 Robinson, Arthur H. ref1, ref2 Robinson, Julia ref1 Rolodex card files ref1n Roman Empire ref1 Rossmo, Kim ref1, ref2 Rossmo’s formula ref1 route planning see travelling salesperson problem (TSP) Royal Danish Geodetic Institute
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
by Michael Shnayerson · 20 May 2019 · 552pp · 163,292 words
market of the 1990s. But their artists were becoming known, and the market was reviving. Zwirner, for his part, had access to his father’s Rolodex and inventory of Pop art. “Unlikely as it might seem, we had a business plan in all this,” Iwan Wirth later declared, “even though the
…
said, $100 million a year in private sales.23 It was time to break off on her own, as an art advisor with a golden Rolodex. IN 2003, GAGOSIAN WAS NAMED BY ArtReview as the figure who had had the most impact on contemporary art’s value and reputation. He would
…
dealer’s reputation and help lure living artists who wished to bask in the late one’s glory. An estate might also have a weighty Rolodex of collectors who had bought the artist’s work, helping a gallery track down hard-to-find pieces and perhaps acquire them. As the megas
…
thirties, Cappellazzo had made her name at Christie’s as co-head of postwar and contemporary art, specializing in private sales. She had an awesome Rolodex and was second to none in sheer tenacity. Her business partner was Allan Schwartzman, the art advisor who counseled Howard Rachofsky of Dallas, among others
…
where the biggest pools of money converged. Hiring away the chairman and international head of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s, along with his Rolodex, gave Lévy the best imaginable partner in that quest. For Gorvy, the appeal of throwing in with Lévy was not quite as obvious. He had
The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
by Sebastian Mallaby · 24 Apr 2006 · 605pp · 169,366 words
any of his rivals, Wolfensohn had courted his target and understood what it would take to get him.27 Volcker’s arrival married one vast Rolodex to another, and soon the reception room at Wolfensohn Inc. buzzed with more traffic than ever. On one occasion, the chairman of Ford Motor Co
…
party. Adventures like these turned clients into loyal friends—and generated plenty of snide swipes from rivals. Wolfensohn was dismissed as a sycophant with a Rolodex, a charmer with no substance; it was said that vain corporate captains who went in for trophy wives were smitten with this trophy banker. “He
…
World Bank’s board the next day; and the day after that, unbeknownst to his senior managers, he mailed his new development paradigm to his Rolodex of friendly world leaders. Before long, reactions were rolling in from presidents and finance ministers. The managers realized that this was indeed a new World
…
seemed like a good omen.30 Three days later, Wolfensohn got a call from Bono, who was now a prized member of Wolfensohn’s legendary Rolodex. Bono, like Wolfensohn, had been over to the White House, and he had seen the president himself. His access tells you that his band, U2
…
Golden interview, April 2, 2003. 26. Ferris, Gentlemen of Fortune, p. 147. 27. Paul Volcker interview, May 8, 2003. 28. “The Man with the Golden Rolodex,” by Leah Nathans Spiro, Business- Week, April 27, 1992, p. 88. 29. Jeff Goldstein interview, April 22, 2003. 30. Golden interview, April 2, 2003. 31
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
by Pamela Paul · 14 Oct 2021 · 194pp · 54,355 words
Facebook: The Inside Story
by Steven Levy · 25 Feb 2020 · 706pp · 202,591 words
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 words
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
by Sebastian Mallaby · 9 Jun 2010 · 584pp · 187,436 words
The Facebook Effect
by David Kirkpatrick · 19 Nov 2010 · 455pp · 133,322 words
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen · 31 Dec 2002 · 300pp · 79,315 words
Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get From Start-Up to IPO on Your Terms
by Jeffrey Bussgang · 31 Mar 2010 · 253pp · 65,834 words
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You
by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms · 2 Apr 2018 · 416pp · 100,130 words
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
by Katherine Clarke · 13 Jun 2023 · 454pp · 127,319 words
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
by Tom McGrath · 3 Jun 2024 · 326pp · 103,034 words
eBoys
by Randall E. Stross · 30 Oct 2008 · 381pp · 112,674 words
The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
by Jason Kelly · 10 Sep 2012 · 274pp · 81,008 words
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
by Marc Randolph · 16 Sep 2019 · 334pp · 102,899 words
The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
by Emmanuel Goldstein · 28 Jul 2008 · 889pp · 433,897 words
The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market
by Leah McGrath Goodman · 15 Feb 2011 · 553pp · 168,111 words
SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World
by Sandra Navidi · 24 Jan 2017 · 831pp · 98,409 words
Getting a Job in Hedge Funds: An Inside Look at How Funds Hire
by Adam Zoia and Aaron Finkel · 8 Feb 2008 · 192pp · 75,440 words
Rainbow Six
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1998
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
by Vaclav Smil · 16 Dec 2013 · 396pp · 117,897 words
CIOs at Work
by Ed Yourdon · 19 Jul 2011 · 525pp · 142,027 words
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
by Andy Greenberg · 15 Nov 2022 · 494pp · 121,217 words
The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire
by Keach Hagey · 25 Jun 2018 · 499pp · 131,113 words
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
by Rob Copeland · 7 Nov 2023 · 412pp · 122,655 words
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
Time Travelers Never Die
by Jack McDevitt · 10 Sep 2009 · 460pp · 108,654 words
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
by Orlando Whitfield · 5 Aug 2024 · 306pp · 104,072 words
Girl Walks Into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
by Rachel Dratch · 29 Mar 2012
Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal
by Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz · 20 Jul 2020 · 520pp · 134,627 words
Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
by Ali Tamaseb · 14 Sep 2021 · 251pp · 80,831 words
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
by Bill Hicks · 2 Jan 2005 · 525pp · 138,747 words
Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by Matt Taibbi · 7 Oct 2019 · 357pp · 99,456 words
The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
by Levi Tillemann · 20 Jan 2015 · 431pp · 107,868 words
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence
by Robert Bryce · 16 Mar 2011 · 415pp · 103,231 words
Food Trucks: Dispatches and Recipes From the Best Kitchens on Wheels
by Shouse, Heather · 19 Apr 2011
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It)
by William Poundstone · 1 Jan 2010 · 519pp · 104,396 words
Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends
by Martin Lindstrom · 23 Feb 2016 · 295pp · 89,430 words
The Secret World of Oil
by Ken Silverstein · 30 Apr 2014 · 233pp · 73,772 words
Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, + Website
by Matt Blumberg · 13 Aug 2013 · 561pp · 114,843 words
A Man for All Markets
by Edward O. Thorp · 15 Nov 2016 · 505pp · 142,118 words
Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
by Adam Fisher · 9 Jul 2018 · 611pp · 188,732 words
Alan Partridge: Nomad: Nomad
by Alan Partridge · 19 Oct 2016 · 245pp · 72,391 words
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · 23 Jul 2009 · 325pp · 110,330 words
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
by Rob Walling · 15 Jan 2010 · 183pp · 49,460 words
Cybersecurity: What Everyone Needs to Know
by P. W. Singer and Allan Friedman · 3 Jan 2014 · 587pp · 117,894 words
The Joy of Clojure
by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser · 28 Nov 2010 · 706pp · 120,784 words
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
by Ben Mezrich · 13 Jul 2009 · 226pp · 69,893 words
God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 31 Mar 2009 · 518pp · 143,914 words
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 3 Feb 2015 · 368pp · 96,825 words
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
by Tim Harford · 2 Feb 2021 · 428pp · 103,544 words
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell · 19 Jul 2021 · 460pp · 130,820 words
Choose Yourself!
by James Altucher · 14 Sep 2013 · 230pp · 76,655 words
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Extraordinary Story of Afterpay
by Jonathan Shapiro and James Eyers · 2 Aug 2021 · 444pp · 124,631 words
Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
by Kevin Davies · 5 Oct 2020 · 741pp · 164,057 words
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
by Jonathan Mahler · 11 Aug 2025 · 559pp · 164,804 words
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities
by Vaclav Smil · 23 Sep 2019
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
by Ernest Scheyder · 30 Jan 2024 · 355pp · 133,726 words
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
by Shaun Walker · 15 Apr 2025 · 465pp · 155,902 words
No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
by Harry Markopolos · 1 Mar 2010 · 431pp · 132,416 words
Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn
by Nick Kostov · 8 Aug 2022 · 327pp · 90,013 words
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman · 20 May 2020 · 562pp · 153,825 words
Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
by Jeff Faux · 16 May 2012 · 364pp · 99,613 words
Who Stole the American Dream?
by Hedrick Smith · 10 Sep 2012 · 598pp · 172,137 words
100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family And
by Sonia Arrison · 22 Aug 2011 · 381pp · 78,467 words
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
by Dina Nayeri · 14 Sep 2020 · 325pp · 107,099 words
Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism
by Barb Cook and Samantha Craft · 20 Aug 2018 · 335pp · 94,578 words
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by Cal Newport · 17 Sep 2012 · 197pp · 60,477 words
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
by Jean M. Twenge · 25 Apr 2023 · 541pp · 173,676 words
Long Game: How Long-Term Thinker Shorthb
by Dorie Clark · 14 Oct 2021 · 201pp · 60,431 words
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
by Benjamin Breen · 16 Jan 2024 · 384pp · 118,573 words
Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
by Lizabeth Cohen · 30 Sep 2019
Economists and the Powerful
by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas · 30 Sep 2012 · 261pp · 103,244 words
Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
by Robin Wigglesworth · 11 Oct 2021 · 432pp · 106,612 words
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
by Phoebe Robinson · 14 Oct 2021 · 265pp · 93,354 words
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
by Nicholas Lemann · 9 Sep 2019 · 354pp · 118,970 words
Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
by G. Pascal Zachary · 1 Apr 2014 · 384pp · 109,125 words
The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community
by Marc J. Dunkelman · 3 Aug 2014 · 327pp · 88,121 words
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
by Jimmy Soni · 22 Feb 2022 · 505pp · 161,581 words
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed · 22 Jan 2009 · 708pp · 196,859 words
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
by Jennifer Burns · 18 Oct 2009 · 495pp · 144,101 words
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
by E. Gabriella Coleman · 25 Nov 2012 · 398pp · 107,788 words
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin · 1 Oct 2018
Working the Street: What You Need to Know About Life on Wall Street
by Erik Banks · 7 Feb 2004
Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy
by Andrew Yang · 15 Nov 2021
Peer-to-Peer
by Andy Oram · 26 Feb 2001 · 673pp · 164,804 words
The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security
by Deborah D. Avant · 17 Oct 2010 · 872pp · 135,196 words
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
by Steven Kotler · 4 Mar 2014 · 330pp · 88,445 words
Coders at Work
by Peter Seibel · 22 Jun 2009 · 1,201pp · 233,519 words
Au Contraire!: Figuring Out the French
by Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron · 14 Apr 2001
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das · 14 Oct 2011 · 741pp · 179,454 words
Underwater: How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare
by Ryan Dezember · 13 Jul 2020 · 279pp · 87,875 words
Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
by Walker Deibel · 19 Oct 2018
The greatest trade ever: the behind-the-scenes story of how John Paulson defied Wall Street and made financial history
by Gregory Zuckerman · 3 Nov 2009 · 342pp · 99,390 words
The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds
by Maneet Ahuja, Myron Scholes and Mohamed El-Erian · 29 May 2012 · 302pp · 86,614 words
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn · 7 Sep 2008 · 332pp · 104,587 words
Hatching Twitter
by Nick Bilton · 5 Nov 2013 · 304pp · 93,494 words
Wall Street Meat
by Andy Kessler · 17 Mar 2003 · 270pp · 75,803 words
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
by Scott Belsky · 31 Mar 2010 · 223pp · 63,484 words
Elliot Allagash: A Novel
by Simon Rich · 24 May 2010 · 215pp · 52,743 words
Panderer to Power
by Frederick Sheehan · 21 Oct 2009 · 435pp · 127,403 words
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
by Rick Perlstein · 17 Aug 2020
A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
by Richard Bookstaber · 5 Apr 2007 · 289pp · 113,211 words
Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America
by David Callahan · 9 Aug 2010
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too
by Gary Vaynerchuk · 30 Jan 2018
Jim Henson: The Biography
by Brian Jay Jones · 23 Sep 2013 · 702pp · 215,002 words
The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments
by Pat Dorsey · 1 Mar 2008 · 141pp · 40,979 words
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth · 9 Feb 2021 · 651pp · 186,130 words
Backbone.js Cookbook
by Vadim Mirgorod · 25 Aug 2013
The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks
by The "Guardian", David Leigh and Luke Harding · 1 Feb 2011 · 322pp · 99,066 words
The Cobweb
by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George · 31 May 2005 · 514pp · 153,274 words
Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in a Global Market
by Steven Drobny · 31 Mar 2006 · 385pp · 128,358 words
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
by David Hoffman · 1 Jan 2009 · 719pp · 209,224 words
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester · 27 Sep 1998 · 215pp · 72,133 words
Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry
by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff · 6 Apr 2015 · 327pp · 102,322 words
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by Claire L. Evans · 6 Mar 2018 · 371pp · 93,570 words
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
by David Callahan · 1 Jan 2004 · 452pp · 110,488 words
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg · 1 Jan 2011 · 455pp · 116,578 words
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov · 1 May 2017 · 331pp · 104,366 words
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill · 22 Apr 2013 · 1,117pp · 305,620 words
Track Changes
by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum · 1 May 2016 · 519pp · 142,646 words
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
by Sharon Zukin · 1 Dec 2009 · 415pp · 119,277 words
The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink
by Michael Blanding · 14 Jun 2010 · 385pp · 133,839 words
Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees
by Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon · 2 Mar 2010 · 613pp · 181,605 words
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
by Duncan J. Watts · 1 Feb 2003 · 379pp · 113,656 words
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You ... Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy
by William Poundstone · 4 Jan 2012 · 260pp · 77,007 words
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
by Glenn Greenwald · 11 Nov 2011 · 283pp · 77,272 words
The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha · 14 Feb 2012 · 176pp · 55,819 words
The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
by Andrew Scott Cooper · 8 Aug 2011
The Sellout: A Novel
by Paul Beatty · 2 Mar 2016 · 271pp · 83,944 words
Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual
by Peter Meyers · 9 Feb 2012
Imagining India
by Nandan Nilekani · 25 Nov 2008 · 777pp · 186,993 words
Den of Thieves
by James B. Stewart · 14 Oct 1991 · 706pp · 206,202 words
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz · 1 Mar 2013 · 567pp · 122,311 words
The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea
by Steve Levine · 23 Oct 2007 · 568pp · 162,366 words
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by Justin Fox · 29 May 2009 · 461pp · 128,421 words
Asymmetry
by Lisa Halliday · 6 Feb 2018 · 287pp · 77,181 words
The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal
by William D. Cohan · 8 Apr 2014 · 1,061pp · 341,217 words
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
by Peter Warren Singer · 1 Jan 2003 · 482pp · 161,169 words
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant · 19 Jun 2017 · 416pp · 129,308 words
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
by Daniel H. Pink · 1 Dec 2012 · 243pp · 61,237 words
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield · 29 May 2017 · 410pp · 119,823 words
Isn't That Rich?: Life Among the 1 Percent
by Richard Kirshenbaum and Michael Gross · 9 Jun 2015 · 197pp · 53,292 words
An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir
by Ariel Leve · 17 Nov 2015 · 187pp · 58,628 words
An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
by Marc Levinson · 31 Jul 2016 · 409pp · 118,448 words
Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
by Mark Skousen · 22 Dec 2006 · 330pp · 77,729 words
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
by Sara Pascoe · 18 Apr 2016 · 276pp · 93,430 words
Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French
by Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron · 1 Dec 2000
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Petre · 30 Sep 2012 · 900pp · 241,741 words
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas · 27 Aug 2018 · 296pp · 98,018 words
The new village green: living light, living local, living large
by Stephen Morris · 1 Sep 2007 · 289pp · 112,697 words
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
by Marc Weingarten · 12 Dec 2006 · 363pp · 123,076 words
The Facebook era: tapping online social networks to build better products, reach new audiences, and sell more stuff
by Clara Shih · 30 Apr 2009 · 255pp · 76,495 words
Lint
by Steve Aylett · 2 May 2005
USA's Best Trips
by Sara Benson · 23 May 2010 · 941pp · 237,152 words
Eternal Empire
by Alec Nevala-Lee · 15 Mar 2013 · 350pp · 105,978 words
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
by John B. Judis · 11 Sep 2016 · 177pp · 50,167 words
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
by Thomas Frank · 5 Aug 2008 · 482pp · 122,497 words
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
by Barbara Oakley Phd · 20 Oct 2008
Too big to fail: the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system from crisis--and themselves
by Andrew Ross Sorkin · 15 Oct 2009 · 351pp · 102,379 words
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott · 1 Jan 1994 · 187pp · 66,656 words
The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World
by Henry Hill and Daniel Simone · 31 Jul 2015 · 446pp · 126,222 words
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
by Emily Chang · 6 Feb 2018 · 334pp · 104,382 words
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
by Anne C. Heller · 27 Oct 2009 · 756pp · 228,797 words
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
by Robin Wright · 28 Feb 2008 · 648pp · 165,654 words
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
by Sebastian Mallaby · 10 Oct 2016 · 1,242pp · 317,903 words
The Art of Profitability
by Adrian Slywotzky · 31 Aug 2002
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
by John Wood · 28 Aug 2006 · 310pp · 91,151 words
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure
by Tim Harford · 1 Jun 2011 · 459pp · 103,153 words
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
by Luke Harding · 7 Feb 2014 · 266pp · 80,018 words
Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
by Leslie Berlin · 7 Nov 2017 · 615pp · 168,775 words
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
by Corey Pein · 23 Apr 2018 · 282pp · 81,873 words
Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully True Stories
by Mike Birbiglia · 11 Oct 2010 · 162pp · 51,978 words
With a Little Help
by Cory Efram Doctorow, Jonathan Coulton and Russell Galen · 7 Dec 2010 · 549pp · 116,200 words
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
by Chris Hayes · 11 Jun 2012 · 285pp · 86,174 words
Pandora's Star
by Peter F. Hamilton · 2 Mar 2004 · 1,234pp · 356,472 words
Everything I Know About Love
by Dolly Alderton · 1 Feb 2018 · 267pp · 81,144 words
Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
by Andrew Selee · 4 Jun 2018 · 359pp · 97,415 words
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
by Mike Mullane · 24 Jan 2006 · 506pp · 167,034 words
Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity
by Currid · 9 Nov 2010 · 332pp · 91,780 words
Zeitgeist
by Bruce Sterling · 1 Nov 2000 · 333pp · 86,662 words
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright · 26 Sep 2006 · 604pp · 177,329 words
War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
by Kwasi Kwarteng · 12 May 2014 · 632pp · 159,454 words
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by Bill Browder · 3 Feb 2015 · 460pp · 130,053 words
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
by Samantha Irby · 14 Apr 2017 · 234pp · 84,737 words
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
by Scott Kupor · 3 Jun 2019 · 340pp · 100,151 words
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market
by Daniel Reingold and Jennifer Reingold · 1 Jan 2006 · 506pp · 146,607 words
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
by David Enrich · 18 Feb 2020 · 399pp · 114,787 words
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
by Katherine Eban · 13 May 2019 · 510pp · 141,188 words
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
by Neil Irwin · 4 Apr 2013 · 597pp · 172,130 words
Frommer's Egypt
by Matthew Carrington · 8 Sep 2008
An Empire of Wealth: Rise of American Economy Power 1607-2000
by John Steele Gordon · 12 Oct 2009 · 519pp · 148,131 words
The Unicorn's Secret
by Steven Levy · 6 Oct 2016
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything
by Steven Levy · 2 Feb 1994 · 244pp · 66,599 words
Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street
by Jeff John Roberts · 15 Dec 2020 · 226pp · 65,516 words
Social Life of Information
by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid · 2 Feb 2000 · 791pp · 85,159 words
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
by Tom Burgis · 24 Mar 2015 · 413pp · 119,379 words
The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz · 4 Nov 2016 · 374pp · 97,288 words
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by Joseph Henrich · 7 Sep 2020 · 796pp · 223,275 words
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1994 · 661pp · 187,613 words
The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry
by John Warrillow · 5 Feb 2015 · 186pp · 49,251 words
Animals
by Emma Jane Unsworth · 2 May 2014
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by Evan Osnos · 12 May 2014 · 499pp · 152,156 words
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More With Less
by Richard Koch · 15 Dec 1999 · 296pp · 78,227 words
The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
by Ben Buchanan · 25 Feb 2020 · 443pp · 116,832 words
Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
by Geoffrey Cain · 15 Mar 2020 · 540pp · 119,731 words
Kissinger: A Biography
by Walter Isaacson · 26 Sep 2005 · 1,330pp · 372,940 words
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by Eliot Higgins · 2 Mar 2021 · 277pp · 70,506 words
The Art of Execution: How the World's Best Investors Get It Wrong and Still Make Millions
by Lee Freeman-Shor · 8 Sep 2015 · 121pp · 31,813 words
Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson · 2 Jan 2005 · 541pp · 146,445 words
The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal
by Duncan Mavin · 20 Jul 2022 · 345pp · 100,989 words
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein · 1 Jan 2008 · 1,351pp · 404,177 words
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
by Corey Seymour, Johnny Depp and Jann S. Wenner · 31 Oct 2007 · 462pp · 151,805 words
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
by Rush Doshi · 24 Jun 2021 · 816pp · 191,889 words
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
by Tony Fadell · 2 May 2022 · 411pp · 119,022 words
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story
by Doug Stanhope · 9 May 2016 · 323pp · 111,561 words
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy
by Michael Dobbs · 24 May 2021 · 426pp · 117,722 words
How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success From the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
by Guy Raz · 14 Sep 2020 · 361pp · 107,461 words
Cable Cowboy
by Mark Robichaux · 19 Oct 2002
Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy
by Lawrence Ingrassia · 28 Jan 2020 · 290pp · 90,057 words
You Are Not So Smart
by David McRaney · 20 Sep 2011 · 270pp · 83,506 words
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian · 28 Mar 2022 · 553pp · 153,028 words
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
by Eric Berger · 2 Mar 2021 · 304pp · 89,879 words
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
by Kashmir Hill · 19 Sep 2023 · 487pp · 124,008 words
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
by Rick Perlstein · 17 Mar 2009 · 1,037pp · 294,916 words
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
by Cal Newport · 2 Mar 2021 · 350pp · 90,898 words
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation
by Hannah Gadsby · 15 Mar 2022 · 373pp · 132,377 words
Elsewhere, U.S.A: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms,and Economic Anxiety
by Dalton Conley · 27 Dec 2008 · 204pp · 67,922 words
Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win
by Sachin Khajuria · 13 Jun 2022 · 229pp · 75,606 words
Money Men: A Hot Startup, a Billion Dollar Fraud, a Fight for the Truth
by Dan McCrum · 15 Jun 2022 · 361pp · 117,566 words
Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic---And Prevented Economic Disaster
by Nick Timiraos · 1 Mar 2022 · 357pp · 107,984 words
Still Broke: Walmart's Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism
by Rick Wartzman · 15 Nov 2022 · 215pp · 69,370 words
Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley
by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans · 25 Apr 2023 · 427pp · 134,098 words
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
by George Marshall · 18 Aug 2014 · 298pp · 85,386 words
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
by Lance Armstrong · 1 Sep 2001 · 304pp · 97,991 words
The Enlightened Capitalists
by James O'Toole · 29 Dec 2018 · 716pp · 192,143 words
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire
by Tim Schwab · 13 Nov 2023 · 618pp · 179,407 words
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul
by Kurt Wagner · 20 Feb 2024 · 332pp · 127,754 words
The Blind Side
by Michael Lewis · 1 Jan 2006 · 315pp · 106,402 words
Casino
by Nicholas Pileggi · 13 Aug 2015
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
by J. Bradford Delong · 6 Apr 2020 · 593pp · 183,240 words
The Smartest Guys in the Room
by Bethany McLean · 25 Nov 2013 · 778pp · 233,096 words
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
by Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin · 7 Nov 2023 · 348pp · 110,533 words
The Rough Guide to Finland
by Rough Guides · 31 May 2010 · 493pp · 155,660 words
Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
by Brittany Kaiser · 21 Oct 2019 · 391pp · 123,597 words
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
by Edward Fishman · 25 Feb 2025 · 884pp · 221,861 words
Doing Time Like a Spy
by John Kiriakou · 11 May 2017 · 299pp · 96,608 words
The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
by Janek Wasserman · 23 Sep 2019 · 470pp · 130,269 words
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
by Desmond Shum · 6 Sep 2021 · 277pp · 85,191 words
First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents
by Gary Ginsberg · 14 Sep 2021 · 418pp · 134,401 words
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
by Alec Ross · 13 Sep 2021 · 363pp · 109,077 words
Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet
by Edward Luce · 13 May 2025 · 612pp · 235,188 words
Florence Like a Local
by Dk Eyewitness · 166pp · 34,003 words
The Warhol Economy
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 15 Jan 2020 · 320pp · 90,115 words