FSG Summaries and Reviews

See all summaries and reviews from Farrar, Straus & Giroux at a glance.

10 Book

Longitudes and Attitudes
Exploring the World After September 11
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 2002
9 Book

That Used to Be Us
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Michael Mandelbaum and Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 2011
9 Book

Why the West Rules – for Now
The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Ian Morris
FSG, 2010
9 Book

Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 2008
9 Book

Running on Empty
How the Democratic and Republican Parties are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Peter G. Peterson
FSG, 2004
9 Book

Churchill
A Biography
Roy Jenkins
FSG, 2001
9 Book

Our Posthuman Future
Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
FSG, 2002
9 Book

Toward Rational Exuberance
The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
B. Mark Smith
FSG, 2001
9 Book

The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
FSG, 1987
8 Book

What Money Can’t Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J. Sandel
FSG, 2012
8 Book

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
FSG, 2011
8 Book

How Markets Fail
The Logic of Economic Calamities
John Cassidy
FSG, 2009
8 Book

Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
FSG, 2010
8 Book

Superclass
The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
David Rothkopf
FSG, 2008
8 Book

Against Happiness
Eric G. Wilson
FSG, 2008
8 Book

Sweet and Low
A Family Story
Rich Cohen
FSG, 2006
8 Book

The World is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 2005
8 Book

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 1995
8 Book

The Lexus and the Olive Tree
A Special Abstract on Global Terrorism Based on Selected Chapters
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 1999
8 Book

Mind Sculpture
Unlocking Your Brain's Untapped Potential
Ian H. Robinson
FSG, 2000
8 Book

The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 1999
7 Book

The Wisdom of Psychopaths
What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
Kevin Dutton
FSG, 2012
7 Book

The Shadow World
Inside the Global Arms Trade
Andrew Feinstein
FSG, 2011
7 Book

Adapt
Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Tim Harford
FSG, 2011
7 Book

Pulse
The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things
Robert Frenay
FSG, 2006
7 Book

Whose Freedom?
The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea
George Lakoff
FSG, 2006
7 Book

The Equity Culture
The Story of the Global Stock Market
B. Mark Smith
FSG, 2003
7 Book

Critical Mass
How One Thing Leads to Another
Philip Ball
FSG, 2004
7 Book

A Free Nation Deep in Debt
The Financial Roots of Democracy
James A. Macdonald
FSG, 2003
7 Book

20:21 Vision
Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century
Bill Emmott
FSG, 2003
7 Book

The Second Creation
Dolly and the Age of Biological Control
Ian Wilmut et al.
FSG, 2000
7 Book

How to Hack a Party Line
The Democrats and Silicon Valley
Sara Miles
FSG, 2001
7 Book

Devil Take the Hindmost
A History of Financial Speculation
Edward Chancellor
FSG, 1999
6 Book

How the West Was Lost
Fifty Years of Economic Folly – and the Stark Choices Ahead
Dambisa Moyo
FSG, 2012
6 Book

Frozen Desire
The Meaning of Money
James Buchan
FSG, 1997
5 Book

Deterring Democracy
Noam Chomsky
FSG, 1991