Reading mostly non-fiction
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird …
"John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best …
In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out …
In 1978, Choi Eun-hee, South Korea's most famous actress disappeared on a business trip to Hong Kong. Her ex-husband, South …
A classic tale of hubris and greed.
Recounts the rise of Michael Milken, his firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, and the leveraged buyout boom they helped to fuel …
The true story of the late 1980s leveraged buyout (LBO) of American food and tobacco conglomerate RJR Nabisco, at the …
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it; and TV ads …
NASA astronaut Michael Collins trained as an experimental test pilot before venturing into space as a vital member of the …
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and …
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, …
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb …
The book moves along at a fair clip, telling the stories of those who got swept up in a tech fantasy with no substance. How did everyone miss the red flags in a company where a 19-year old college drop-out claims to have solved medical diagnostics.
(I mean, even Henry Kissinger was involved.)