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Listopia > Gary Gudmundson's votes on the list The Economist - Books of the Year 2007 (46 Books)
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
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1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East
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The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
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God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
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Edith Wharton
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The Wagner Clan
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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
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Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
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The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I
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The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837
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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
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The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
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The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice In Guantanamo Bay
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Gomorrah
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Through the Darkness: A Life in Zimbabwe
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The Age of Turbulence
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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
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The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune
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Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
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Pick of the bunch History, politics, music, business, biography, memoir, letters and fiction. There is something for everyone in this round-up of the year's best books Dec 6th 2007 |From the print edition .. Biography The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family By Jonathan Carr. Grove Atlantic; 432 pages; $27.50. Faber and Faber; £20 The all-consuming story of the Wagners, their friends, their rivalries and the marvellous music they made while becoming the Sopranos of the opera world. ______________________________________________ God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain By Rosemary Hill. Allen Lane; 416 pages; £30 In this section Pick of the bunch What we wroteReprintsRelated items Books by Economist writers in 2007: What we wroteDec 6th 2007 Business.view: Bah! HumbugDec 4th 2007 Poetry: The private manNov 22nd 2007 Warfare: A dozen European years of warNov 8th 2007 Business books: Kicking ass in an unflat worldNov 1st 2007 Britain and America: Hail to the chiefsNov 1st 2007 Twentieth-century music: Music, war and politics intertwinedOct 25th 2007 The Man Booker prize: Lust in the old countryOct 18th 2007 Philanthropy: The secretive do-gooderOct 4th 2007 The Byzantine empire: The lasting glory of its artOct 4th 2007 New fiction: At ev'ry word a reputation diesSep 27th 2007 Alan Greenspan's memoirs: The Undertaker's storySep 20th 2007 Statistics: Don't panicSep 13th 2007 Automated decision-making: The death of expertiseSep 13th 2007 The Wagner family: Glorious music, disgusting peopleSep 6th 2007 The CIA: On top of everything else, not very good at its jobAug 16th 2007 Pugin: Gothic's moral superiorityAug 9th 2007 How to help the poorest: Springing the trapsAug 2nd 2007 New fiction: Life among the frozen ChosenJul 19th 2007 The history of India: A miraculous journeyJun 21st 2007 Guantánamo: a lawyer's view: Self-defeatingJun 7th 2007 Uncertainty: The perils of predictionMay 31st 2007 The six-day war: Jews and PrussiansMay 24th 2007 Nuclear proliferation: An awful certaintyMay 10th 2007 Lazard: Clash of the titansApr 12th 2007 English history: An interim time of great confusionApr 4th 2007 New fiction: Beach musicMar 29th 2007 An African adventurer: Dark deedsMar 15th 2007 Tobacco: An evil weedMar 15th 2007 Oxford: Lost horizonsMar 8th 2007 Seventeenth-century England: Meet the familyMar 1st 2007 New fiction from Australia: A great divideMar 1st 2007 Literary biography: Grand dameJan 25th 2007 Beatrix Potter: Force of natureJan 4th 2007 Books of the year 2006: Fighting to be topsDec 7th 2006 Related topics HarperCollinsArts, entertainment and mediaMediaBooks and literatureUnited States The tragic life of the Victorian architect who built glorious cathedrals and filled Britain with buildings that look like medieval monasteries. ______________________________________________ Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature By Linda Lear. St Martin's Press; 592 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25 A spunky, humorous woman who fought conventional Victorian family expectations to lead an independent life as an artist, businesswoman and conservationist. _________________________________________ Edith Wharton By Hermione Lee. Knopf; 880 pages; $35. Chatto & Windus; £25 Money, status, marriage and divorce: all became grist to the mill of the turn-of-the-century American writer whom Henry James called “the great generalissima”. _________________________________________ Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm. Yale University Press; 240 pages; $25 and £16.99 How two elderly Jewish lesbians—Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas—survived the Nazis, by the author of “The Journalist and the Murderer”, “Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession”, and “Inside the Freud Archives”. ______________________________________________ Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer By Tim Jeal. Yale University Press; 608 pages; $38. Faber and Faber; £25 The best and most readable biography of Henry Morton Stanley draws on a wealth of new material. Tim Jeal is also the biographer of Lord Baden Powell, who started the Boy Scouts, and David Livingstone, the most famous Victorian explorer. _________________________________________ History ______________________________________________ The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America By Allan M. Brandt. Basic Books; 704 pages; $36 As recently as the late 1990s cigarettes killed more Americans than AIDS, car accidents, alcohol, murder, suicide, illegal drugs and fire. Nevertheless, the industry survived. This is the first full and convincing account of how it did so. ______________________________________________ God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World By Walter Russell Mead. Knopf; 464 pages; $27.95. Atlantic Books; £25 The birth, rise, triumph, defence and continuing growth of Anglo-American power—or how the much-loathed Anglo-Saxons have (mostly) kept on winning. __________________________________________ Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA By Tim Weiner. Doubleday; 704 pages; $27.95. Allen Lane; £25 A survey of the agency's failures since its founding in 1947, which concludes that the world's most powerful country has yet to develop a first-rate spy service. _______________________________________________ 1967: Israel, the War and the Year that Transformed the Middle East By Tom Segev. Metropolitan Books; 688 pages; $35. Little, Brown; £25 A riveting narrative, based on letters, diaries and interviews, as well as Israel's rich official archives, that analyses the diplomatic and military background to the six-day war and offers a shrewd insight into the nation's psyche. _______________________________________________ Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire By Judith Herrin. Allen Lane; 416 pages; £20. To be published in America by Princeton University Press in January A new study which argues that the Byzantines were not just makers of bewitching golden art, but also ran a vibrant, dynamic, cosmopolitan empire whose legacy is still discernible all over south-east Europe and the Levant. ______________________________________________ Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815 By Charles Esdaile. Allen Lane; 621 pages; £30 Charles Esdaile focuses on what made European nations fight each other—for so long and with such devastating results. A grand and panoramic study that reassesses a tumultuous era, looking far beyond the battles and Napoleon's insatiable greed for military glory. ______________________________________________ The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I By John Adamson. Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 576 pages; £25 A radical new look at the coming of the English civil war, itself one of the most fought-over episodes in English history and historiography. ______________________________________________ The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain, 1789-1837 By Ben Wilson. Penguin; 464 pages; $27.95. Published in Britain as “Decency and Disorder”; Faber and Faber; £20 One of Britain's most promising young historians examines how the liberality of the 18th century was transformed into the moralism of the Victorian age. ______________________________________________ The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England By Adrian Tinniswood. Riverhead Books; 592 pages; $35. Jonathan Cape; £25 Meet the family that was involved in cheesemaking, sword-buying and scandal-mongering—as well as the English civil war, the Great Fire of London and the coronation of William and Mary. ______________________________________________ Scotland: The Autobiography—2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen By Rosemary Goring. Viking; 512 pages; £25. To be published in America by Overlook in July From the battlefield to the sports field: the tumultuous story of Scotland as told by those who witnessed it first hand. A surprising collection. ______________________________________________ Politics and current affairs ______________________________________________ Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race By Richard Rhodes. Knopf; 400 pages; $28.95. To be published in Britain by Simon & Schuster in February Despite the uncertainty of whether Iran is developing atomic weapons, the nuclear club has expanded by at least half since the collapse of the Soviet Union. By carefully assembling all the available evidence on the current state of the arms race, Richard Rhodes presents a terrifying overview of the global potential for killing. ______________________________________________ The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor By William Langewiesche. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 192 pages; $22. Allen Lane; £20 A former professional pilot, turned investigative reporter, William Langewiesche takes the low road from Washington, DC, to Pakistan, Russia, Georgia and Turkey to try to discover just how hard or easy it is to get hold of atomic weapons. A detailed companion to Richard Rhodes's big-picture approach. ______________________________________________ The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court By Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday; 384 pages; $27.95 Only an outsider such as Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer at the New Yorker, could have written such an engaging, erudite, candid and insightful analysis of the work done by the usually highly secretive justices of America's Supreme Court. ______________________________________________ How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia By Anders Aslund. Cambridge University Press; 384 pages; $25.99 and £15.99 A rich and detailed chronicle of the unsteady transition from central planning to market economies, with a particularly good chapter on the rise of the Russian oligarchs and how they differ from the 19th-century American robber barons. ______________________________________________ India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy By Ramachandra Guha. Ecco; 912 pages; $34.95. Macmillan; £25 Using a patient approach, gentle criticism and eclectic examples to draw evidence that supports his argument, Ramachandra Guha, a historian and biographer, offers a clear and detailed narrative explaining how the miracle that is modern India emerged from the colonial chrysalis. ______________________________________________ The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantánamo Bay By Clive Stafford Smith. Nation Books; 336 pages; $25.95. Published in Britain as “Bad Men: Guantánamo Bay and the Secret Prisons”; Orion; £16.99 The best analysis so far of the erosion of civil liberties in America and Britain and the consequences for individuals and society, by the lawyer who has represented more prisoners in Guantánamo than anyone else. ______________________________________________ The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? By Francisco Goldman. Grove Atlantic; 416 pages; $25. To be published in Britain by Atlantic Books in February In his first book of non-fiction, Francisco Goldman, a novelist whose mother is Guatemalan, examines a war crime and offers a long-overdue indictment of the criminals who, sanctioned by the regime, contributed to a generation of atrocities. ______________________________________________ Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System By Roberto Saviano. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 301 pages; $25. To be published in Britain by Macmillan in January A national bestseller in Italy that traces the decline of Naples as construction, fashion, drugs and the disposal of toxic waste all fell under the systematic control of organised crime. ______________________________________________ Through the Darkness: A Life in Zimbabwe. By Judith Garfield Todd. Struik; 472 pages; $28 and £14.99 A harrowing tale of courage and betrayal by a white heroine of the liberation struggle against Ian Smith who has been punished (and stripped of her citizenship) with extraordinary vengefulness by Robert Mugabe for speaking out about the regime's abuses of power. ______________________________________________ Economics and business ______________________________________________ The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co—A Tale of Unrestrained Ambition, Billion-Dollar Fortunes, Byzantine Power Struggles, and Hidden Scandal By William D. Cohan. Doubleday; 742 pages; $29.95 How an investment bank concentrated on providing corporate advice to the rich and powerful—a business model that relied not on its balance sheet but on the brains and wiles of the men toiling away in its famously ratty offices. William Cohan used to work at Lazard's himself. ______________________________________________ The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable By Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Random House; 400 pages; $26.95. Allen Lane; £20 A Wall Street trader turned philosopher on the power of the unexpected. Illustration by Daniel Pudles. __________________________________________ The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It By Paul Collier. Oxford University Press; 224 pages; $28 and £16.99 Crammed with statistical nuggets and common sense, this book, by an economics professor at Oxford University, should be compulsory reading for anyone embroiled in the thankless business of trying to pull people out of the pit of poverty. _______________________________________________ The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World By Alan Greenspan. Penguin Press; 531 pages; $35 and £25 A memoir-cum-essay by the famously opaque former chairman of the Federal Reserve that provides few surprises, but is an unexpectedly enjoyable read. _______________________________________________ Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything By Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. Portfolio; 320 pages; $25.95. Atlantic Books; £16.99 A believers' guide to how the emergence of community on the internet is fundamentally changing business. ______________________________________________ From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession By Rakesh Khurana. Princeton University Press; 542 pages; $35 and £19 A Harvard Business School professor tells the fascinating tale of how management has lost its way. ______________________________________________ The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune By Conor O'Clery. PublicAffairs; 352 pages; $26.95 and £15.99 A rollicking story of how, by stealth, an Irish-American obsessed by secrecy built a business empire and revolutionised philanthropy. ______________________________________________ Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits By Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant. Jossey-Bass; 336 pages; $29.95 and £15.99 As the importance of non-profit organisations grows, so does the need for them to be well managed and effective. Cleverly chosen examples show how the best achieve their impact. ______________________________________________ Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart By Ian Ayres. Bantam; 272 pages; $25. John Murray; £16.99 A lively and clear analysis of how the accumulation of large bodies of data is changing the way that businesses (and people) make decisions. ______________________________________________ Fiction and memoirs " |
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Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey
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The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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Letters of Ted Hughes
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