Penguin Press Summaries and Reviews

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Leadership
Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger
Penguin Press, 2022
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

Reclaiming Conversation
The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Sherry Turkle
Penguin Press, 2015
8 Book

Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
Steve Coll
Penguin Press, 2012
7 Book

The Myths of Happiness
What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn’t. What Shouldn’t Make You Happy, but Does
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Penguin Press, 2013
8 Book

Behave
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
Penguin Press, 2017
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The New Map
Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Daniel Yergin
Penguin Press, 2020
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No Rules Rules
Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Penguin Press, 2020
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The Biggest Bluff
How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
Penguin Press, 2020
7 Book

Advice Not Given
A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Mark Epstein
Penguin Press, 2018
8 Book

Hit Makers
The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
Derek Thompson
Penguin Press, 2017
8 Book

Fashionopolis
The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
Dana Thomas
Penguin Press, 2019
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Ways and Means
Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
Roger Lowenstein
Penguin Press, 2022
9 Book

Churchill and Orwell
The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E. Ricks
Penguin Press, 2017
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The Climate Book
Greta Thunberg
Penguin Press, 2023
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The Nineties
A Book
Chuck Klosterman
Penguin Press, 2022
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Work
A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
James Suzman
Penguin Press, 2021
9 Book

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

Drunk Tank Pink
And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave
Adam Alter
Penguin Press, 2013
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
9 Book

On Grand Strategy
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

Civilization
The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson
Penguin Press, 2011
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The Country of the Blind
A Memoir at the End of Sight
Andrew Leland
Penguin Press, 2023
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Hollywood Ending
Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence
Ken Auletta
Penguin Press, 2022
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A World in Disarray
American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Richard Haass
Penguin Press, 2017
7 Book

The Assault on Intelligence
American National Security in an Age of Lies
Michael V. Hayden
Penguin Press, 2018
8 Book

The Third Pillar
How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
Raghuram Rajan
Penguin Press, 2019
7 Book

Capitalism in America
A History
Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
Penguin Press, 2018
9 Book

Let My People Go Surfing
The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard
Penguin Press, 2016
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The Poison Squad
One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Deborah Blum
Penguin Press, 2018
8 Book

The World
A Brief Introduction
Richard Haass
Penguin Press, 2020
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
8 Book

Big Game
The NFL in Dangerous Times
Mark Leibovich
Penguin Press, 2018
9 Book

World Without Mind
The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Franklin Foer
Penguin Press, 2017
8 Book

Ill Winds
Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
Larry Diamond
Penguin Press, 2019
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The Meritocracy Trap
How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
Daniel Markovits
Penguin Press, 2019
8 Book

The Narrow Corridor
States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Penguin Press, 2019
9 Book

Burn the Ice
The American Culinary Revolution and Its End
Kevin Alexander
Penguin Press, 2019
8 Book

The Truths We Hold
An American Journey
Kamala Harris
Penguin Press, 2019
9 Book

Zucked
Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Roger McNamee
Penguin Press, 2019
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She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
Penguin Press, 2019
8 Book

The Square and the Tower
Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Niall Ferguson
Penguin Press, 2018
9 Book

The Third Plate
Field Notes on the Future of Food
Dan Barber
Penguin Press, 2015
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
8 Book

Sea Power
The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans
James Stavidris
Penguin Press, 2017
8 Book

Soonish
Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything
Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
Penguin Press, 2017
8 Book

The Knowledge
How to Rebuild Our World After the Apocalypse
Lewis Dartnell
Penguin Press, 2014
8 Book

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind
John Coates
Penguin Press, 2013
9 Book

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

Zero Zero Zero
Look at Cocaine and All You See Is Powder. Look Through Cocaine and You See the World.
Roberto Saviano
Penguin Press, 2015
9 Book

After the Music Stopped
The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Alan S. Blinder
Penguin Press, 2013
7 Book

Plutocrats
The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Chrystia Freeland
Penguin Press, 2012
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 Age of Turbulence
Adventures in a New World
Alan Greenspan
Penguin Press, 2008
8 Book

Shop Class as Soulcraft
An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Matthew B. Crawford
Penguin Press, 2010