Ah, summer. The sun’s out, the weather is warm (or oppressively hot and humid, depending on where you reside) and it’s finally time to use up some well-deserved vacation time.
For many people this means heading to a beach and lying in the sand with a tropical drink in one hand and a trashy novel in the other one. Or, if you’re Andrew Ross Sorkin, star business reporter for The New York Times‘ DealBook (and a bestselling author in his own right), this means reading books about central banks, famous activist investors, the rise of the M&A economy and Allen Greenspan.
Here are the eight books that Sorkin recommends for summer reading, as featured in DealBook on Monday.
- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martinez, a former executive at Facebook
- The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed A. El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant, the youngest-ever tenured full professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
- Bloodsport: When Ruthless Dealmakers, Shrewd Ideologues, and Brawling Lawyers Toppled the Corporate Establishment by Robert Teitelman, the founding editor of DealBook
- Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism by Jeff Gramm, owner and manager of the Bandera Partners hedge fund and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School
- Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country by the journalist Alex Cuadros
- The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by the journalist Sebastian Mallaby
- To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History by Lawrence Levy, the former chief financial officer of Pixar
Click here to read Sorkin’s description of each of these books.
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