Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011. xvi, 630 pp. Walter Isaacson is CEO of the Aspen Institute, past chairman of CNN, and past managing editor of Time magazine. He was author or co-author of biographies for Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Kissinger, among other books. Steve Jobs was founder …
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 245 pp. Michael J. Sandel is the Ann T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is author or editor of seven other books including Justice. He frequently appears on PBS …
The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011. xvi, 240 pp. Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is the author of three other popular books, author or co-author of two economics text books, …
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You By Eli Pariser, The Penguin Press, 2011, 308 pages. Eli Pariser is the board president and former executive director of the liberal website MoveOn.org, which at five million members is one of the largest citizens’ organizations in American politics. He has written op-eds for The …
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back By Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, New York: Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, 2011. Xiv, 380 pp. Thomas Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times columnist, and the author of five best-selling books. Michael Mandelbaum …
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. New York: Farrar, Strass, and Giroux, 2011. 499 pp. Daniel Kahneman is the emeritus Eugene Higgens professor of psychology and the emeritus professor of psychology and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, both at Princeton University. He is author or coauthor of six other …
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis. New York: W.W. Norton Company, 2011. xxi, 213 pp. Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of The Big Short, The Blind Side, Liars Poker, A New New Thing, and eight other books. Many books have been written on the causes of the great economic crisis …
555 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. • Washington, D.C. I’ve been told that there are 75 museums in Washington D.C., alone. If you have ever traveled to the District of Columba, you know firsthand the dilemma of trying to decide what to see among so many wonderful possibilities. This past summer, Al Erisman and I had the opportunity …
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement By David Brooks, New York: Random House, 2011. xviii, 424 pp. David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, and is the author of two other books. Amidst a growing volume of books on the brain, based on research both in …
Breaking the Fear Barrier: How Fear Destroys Companies From the Inside Out, and What to Do About It by Tom Rieger. New York: Gallup Press, 2011. 151 pp. Tom Rieger is the leader and chief architect of Gallup’s worldwide consulting efforts to indentify and remove barriers. The thesis of this little book is that fear …
