Penguin Press Summaries and Reviews

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10 Book

Tools and Weapons

The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne
Penguin Press, 2019
9 Book

Pappyland

A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
Wright Thompson
Penguin Press, 2020
9 Book

Frenemies

The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
Ken Auletta
Penguin Press, 2018
9 Book

World Without Mind

The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Franklin Foer
Penguin Press, 2017
9 Book

Churchill and Orwell

The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E. Ricks
Penguin Press, 2017
9 Book
John Lewis Gaddis
Penguin Press, 2018
9 Book

Meltdown

What Plane Crashes, Oil Spills, and Dumb Business Decisions Can Teach Us About How to Succeed at Work and at Home
Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik
Penguin Press, 2018
9 Book

Burn the Ice

The American Culinary Revolution and Its End
Kevin Alexander
Penguin Press, 2019
9 Book

Cribsheet

A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Emily Oster
Penguin Press, 2019
9 Book

Zucked

Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Roger McNamee
Penguin Press, 2019
9 Book

The Third Plate

Field Notes on the Future of Food
Dan Barber
Penguin Press, 2015
9 Book

Let My People Go Surfing

The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard
Penguin Press, 2016
9 Book

The Man Who Knew

The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Sebastian Mallaby
Penguin Press, 2016
9 Book

Devil’s Bargain

Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
Joshua Green
Penguin Press, 2017
9 Book

Windfall

The Booming Business of Global Warming
McKenzie Funk
Penguin Press, 2014
9 Book

Reclaiming Conversation

The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Sherry Turkle
Penguin Press, 2015
9 Book

After the Music Stopped

The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Alan S. Blinder
Penguin Press, 2013
9 Book

Civilization

The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson
Penguin Press, 2011
9 Book

Citizenville

How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
Gavin Newsom and Lisa Dickey
Penguin Press, 2013
9 Book

The Signal and the Noise

Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t
Nate Silver
Penguin Press, 2012
8 Book

The Coddling of the American Mind

How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Penguin Press, 2018
8 Book

Fashionopolis

The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
Dana Thomas
Penguin Press, 2019
8 Book

The World

A Brief Introduction
Richard Haass
Penguin Press, 2020
8 Book

Big Game

The NFL in Dangerous Times
Mark Leibovich
Penguin Press, 2018