Book Reviews

The Geekdom of Google

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

By Ken Auletta
Penguin Press; 384pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

An Ambitious Look at Wall Street's Convulsions

Too Big Too Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves

By Andrew Ross Sorkin
Viking; 600 pp.; $32.95 Reader Reviews

More Oddball Tales for Freakonomics Fans

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Morrow; 270pp; $29.99 Reader Reviews

Blinded by Optimism—from 9/11 to Subprime

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

By Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan Books; 235 pp; $23 Reader Reviews

Jamie Dimon: Lucky or Good?

Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase

By Duff McDonald
Simon & Schuster; 340pp.; $28 Reader Reviews

Fixing an Out-of-Whack Global Economy

The Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization

By Stephen Roach
Wiley; 414 pp.; $39.95 Reader Reviews

Extraordinary Women, Familiar Advice

How Remarkable Women Lead: A Breakthrough Model for Work and Life

By Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston
Crown Business; 355 pp.; $27.50 Reader Reviews

The Redemption of Keynes

Keynes: The Return of the Master

By Robert Skidelsky
PublicAffairs; 221 pp; $25.95

Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist

By Peter Clarke
Bloomsbury Press; 211 pp; $20 Reader Reviews

Can Entrepreneurs Tame the Mideast?

Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World

By Vali Nasr
Free Press; 308 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

A Peek Under the Hood of a Business Book

Women Want More: How to Capture Your Share of the World's Largest, Fastest-Growing Market

By Michael J. Silverstein and Kate Sayre with John Butman
HarperCollins; $27.99 Reader Reviews

The Real Mother of Invention

Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others

By David Kord Murray
Gotham; 293 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

Health Care: Lessons for America

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

By T.R. Reid
Penguin Press; 277 pp.; $25.95 Reader Reviews

Bernanke, Flying by the Seat of His Pants

In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic

By David Wessel
Crown Business; 323 pp.; $27.99 Reader Reviews

Kinder, Gentler, Richer Companies

SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good

By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Crown; 320 pp.; $27.50 Reader Reviews

Lehman Brothers: Wall Street's Titanic

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

By Lawrence G. McDonald and Patrick Robinson
Crown; 351 pp.; $27 Reader Reviews

A Brief History of Blogs

Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters

By Scott Rosenberg
Crown; 405 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

Chris Anderson: Not Just Info Wants to Be Free

Free: The Future of a Radical Price

By Chris Anderson
Hyperion; 274 pp.; $26.99 Reader Reviews

The Corporate Shape Shifters

Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths that Paralyze American Gun Policy

By Dennis A. Henigan
Potomac Books; 256 pp.; $29.95 Reader Reviews

The Corporate Shape Shifters

The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You

By Michael S. Malone
Crown Business; 295 pp; $27.50 Reader Reviews

The Stop-Managing Guide to Management

Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science

By Charles S. Jacobs
Portfolio; 216 pp.; $25.95 Reader Reviews

The Things We Do for Money

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

By Alain de Botton
Pantheon; 327 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

Smirnoff: The Amazing History of a Brand

The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire

By Linda Himelstein
HarperCollins; 384 pp.; $29.99 Reader Reviews

The Story of Bear Stearns' Final, Tragic Days

Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street

By Kate Kelly
Portfolio; 247 pp.; $25.95 Reader Reviews

JPMorgan's Dangerous Derivatives

Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe

By Gillian Tett
Free Press; 293 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

Divided We Stand

Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide

By Cass R. Sunstein
Oxford University Press; 199 pp.; $21.95 Reader Reviews

The Bernie Madoff of the Jazz Age

The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals

By Frank Partnoy
Public Affairs; 288 pp; $26.95 Reader Reviews

How Each Nation Sinks or Swims

False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World

By Alan Beattie
Riverhead Books; 321 pp.; $26.95 Reader Reviews

Imagining India: In Pursuit of Prodigious Potential

Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation

By Nandan Nilekani
The Penguin Press; 511 pp.; $29.95 Reader Reviews

A Rose-Colored Look Under GM's Hood

Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon

By William J. Holstein
Walker; 267pp; $26 Reader Reviews

How News Corp. Nabbed MySpace

Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America

By Julia Angwin
Random House; 371 pp; $27 Reader Reviews

Irrational Exuberance Writ Large

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

By George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
Princeton; 230 pp.; $24.95 Reader Reviews

Bear Stearns and Wall Street's House of Cards

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

By William D. Cohan
Doubleday; 468 pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

Speaking Up for the Organization Man

The Truth About Middle Managers: Who They Are, How They Work, Why They Matter

By Paul Osterman
Harvard Business Press; 189 pp.; $35.00 Reader Reviews

Washington's Greatest Stimulus Projects

Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now

By Felix Rohatyn
Simon & Schuster; 259 pp; $26 Reader Reviews

Sony, Microsoft, and the Ultimate Gaming Chip

The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3

By David Shippy and Mickie Phipps
Citadel Press; 240 pp.; $21.95 Reader Reviews

McNuggets of Wisdom at McDonald's

Everything I Know About Business I Learned at McDonald's: The 7 Leadership Principles that Drive Break Out Success

By Paul Facella
McGraw-Hill; 223 pp.; $24.95 Reader Reviews

Iconoclasts Who Drilled the Texas Oil Patch

The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

By Bryan Burrough
The Penguin Press; 466 pp.; $29.95 Reader Reviews

The Alienation of the Striving Middle Class

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
Pantheon; 221 pp.; $24 Reader Reviews

The Rise and Fall of David Ogilvy

The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising

By Kenneth Roman
Palgrave Macmillan; 282 pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

The Evangelists of Innovation

Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations

By Hayagreeva Rao
Princeton; 205 pp.; $24.95 Reader Reviews

Bleeder's Digest

Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

By Michael Lewis
Norton; 391 pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

The Money Theory of World History

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

By Niall Ferguson
Penguin Press; 442 pp.; $29.95 Reader Reviews

The Influence of the Net Generation

Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World

By Don Tapscott
McGraw-Hill; 368 pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

Gladwell's Outliers: Timing is Almost Everything

Outliers: The Story of Success

By Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown; 309 pp.; $27.99 Reader Reviews

How Inflation Shaped Economics in Today's U.S.

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence

By Robert J. Samuelson
Random House; 309 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

Portrait of the Art Scene

Seven Days in the Art World

By Sarah Thornton
Norton; 274 pp; $24.95 Reader Reviews

Neuromarketing: When an MRI Predicts What You'll Buy

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

By Martin Lindstrom
Doubleday; 240 pp.; $24.95 Reader Reviews

Copyright Expert Lawrence Lessig Copies Himself

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

By Lawrence Lessig
Penguin Press; 327 pp; $25.95 Reader Reviews

The Rise (and Mishaps) of Goldman Sachs

The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

By Charles D. Ellis
The Penguin Press; 729 pp.; $37.95 Reader Reviews

Sweat and Striving on China's Factory Floor

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

By Leslie T. Chang
Spiegel & Grau; 420 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

Buffett's Ferocious Focus

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

By Alice Schroeder
Bantam; 960 pp.; $35 Reader Reviews

Google + Rise to Power + Audacious

Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know

By Randall Stross
Free Press; 275 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

The Wisdom of the Business Crowd

Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business

By Jeff Howe
Crown Business; 311 pp; $26.95 Reader Reviews

Enlisting Father Profit to Save Mother Nature

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America

By Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 438 pp; $27.95 Reader Reviews

Solving the Subprime Crisis of Financial Democracy

The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It

By Robert J. Shiller
Princeton; 196 pp.; $16.95 Reader Reviews

The American Dream as a Pleasant Haze

The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream

By John Zogby
Random House; 235 pp; $26 Reader Reviews

IG Farben and Hitler: A Fateful Chemistry

Hell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine

By Diarmuid Jeffreys
Metropolitan Books; 485 pp; $32 Reader Reviews

What I Learned at Harvard Business School

Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

By Philip Delves Broughton
Penguin Press; 283pp; $25.95 Reader Reviews

The Credit Crisis: Put the Blame on Wall Street

Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis

By Paul Muolo and Mathew Padilla
Wiley; 338pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

Ownership Spread Too Thin

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

By Michael Heller
Basic Books; 259pp; $26 Reader Reviews

A Space Program for Technology

Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations

By Richard J. Elkus Jr.
Basic Books; 272 pp.; $27 Reader Reviews

Are We Consumers—or Consumed?

Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are

By Rob Walker
Random House; 291pp; $25

Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion

By Lucas Conley
PublicAffairs; 230pp; $22.95 Reader Reviews

The Squeeze on the American Worker

High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families

By Peter Gosselin
Basic Books; 374pp; $26.95

The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker

By Steven Greenhouse
Knopf; 365pp; $25.95 Reader Reviews

5,000 Years of Raucous Trade

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

By William J. Bernstein
Atlantic Monthly Press; 467pp; $30 Reader Reviews

Management Under the Microscope

Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management

By Gordon Binder and Philip Bashe
Harvard Business School Press; 292pp; $29.95 Reader Reviews

The Case of the Bogus Bordeaux

The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

By Benjamin Wallace
Crown; 319pp; $24.95 Reader Reviews

The Improbable Heroes of Toontown

The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company

By David A. Price
Knopf; 308 pp; $27.95 Reader Reviews

The New New World Order

The Post-American World

By Fareed Zakaria
Norton; 292 pp; $25.95 Reader Reviews

Winning the Board Game

The Board Book: An Insider's Guide for Directors and Trustees

By William G. Bowen
Norton; 230 pp; $26.95 Reader Reviews

Mobsters Without Borders

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

By Misha Glenny
Knopf; 375 pp; $27.95 Reader Reviews

A Beast Bred on Wall Street

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash

By Charles R. Morris
PublicAffairs; 194 pp; $22.95 Reader Reviews

You Are Where You Live

Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

By Richard Florida
Basic Books; 374 pp; $26.95 Reader Reviews

How P&G Pampers New Thinking

The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation

By A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan
Crown Business; 336 pp; $27.50 Reader Reviews

Sneakers, Nazis, and a Family Feud

Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud that Forever Changed the Business of Sport

By Barbara Smit
Ecco; 384 pp; $26.95 Reader Reviews

What Ever Happened to 'An Apple a Day'?

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

By Melody Petersen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 432 pp; $26 Reader Reviews

The Highest Rollers on the Strip

Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas

By Christina Binkley
Hyperion; 304 pp; $25.95 Reader Reviews

Why You Do the Crazy Things You Do

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

By Dan Ariely
Harper; 280 pp; $25.95 Reader Reviews

When the Bottom Line Is Ending Poverty

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

By Muhammad Yunus
PublicAffairs; 261 pp; $26 Reader Reviews

In Praise of Not-So-Free Trade

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

By Ha-Joon Chang
Bloomsbury Press; 276pp; $26.95 Reader Reviews

Calling WorldCom to Account

Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower

By Cynthia Cooper
Wiley; 402pp; $27.95 Reader Reviews

On the Scent of a Winner

The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York

By Chandler Burr
Henry Holt; 306pp; $25 Reader Reviews

Just Don't Call It 'Chindia'

Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours

By Tarun Khanna
Harvard Business School; 351pp; $29.95 Reader Reviews

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)

By David Cay Johnston
Portfolio; 323pp; $24.95Reader Reviews

The 'World Wide Computer'—Another HAL?

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google

By Nicholas Carr
W. W. Norton & Co.; $25.95Reader Reviews

Thieves' Highway

The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California

By Richard Rayner
Atlas Books/Norton; 223pp; $23.95Reader Reviews

Mexican Immigration 101

Ex-Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants

By Jorge G. Castañeda
New Press; 222pp; $25.95Reader Reviews

What's Good for India

India's Century: The Age of Entrepreneurship in the Worlds Biggest Democracy

By Kamal Nath
McGraw-Hill; 230pp; $27.95Reader Reviews

Ringing the Bell on Wall Street

King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange

By Charles Gasparino
Collins; 383pp; $27.95Reader Reviews