Book Reviews

Where Does Wall Street Go Now?

Paper Fortunes: Modern Wall Street: Where It's Been and Where It's Going

By Roy C. Smith
St. Martin's Press; $35 Reader Reviews

Wake Up and Smell the Zeitgeist

Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation

By Grant McCracken
Basic Books; 262 pp.; $26.95 Reader Reviews

Busting the Myth of the Heroic CEO

From Predators to Icons: Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero

By Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot
Cornell University Press; $24.95 Reader Reviews

The Limits of Going with Your Gut

Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition

By Michael J. Mauboussin
Harvard Business Press; 208 pp.; $29.95 Reader Reviews

Man of the Meltdown

The Greatest Trade Ever

By Gregory Zuckerman
Broadway; 293 pp.; $26 Reader Reviews

The King of the Cloud

Behind the Cloud

By Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler
Josey-Bass; 278 pp.; $27.95 Reader Reviews

John Cassidy's How Markets Fail

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

By John Cassidy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 390 pp.; $28 Reader 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

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