Two new and excellent short e-Books

Jonathan Rauch, Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy.  The tag “self-recommending” was made for books like this one.  According to Rauch, transparency is overrated and politics should be more transactional.

Jeffrey Towson and Jonathan Woetzel, The One Hour China Consumer Book: Five Short Stories That Explain the Brutal Fight for One Billion Customers.  The short tale of why the most successful beer companies are the state-owned enterprises is alone worth the price of this book.

And I just downloaded Hugo Dixon’s The In/Out Question, which argues the UK should try to stay in the European Union…