This is a great book which explains some of the reasons behind the 2007-2010 financial issues. It talks about derivatives, mortgages, and Wall Street practices which lead to the problems and the reactions of the Obama administration during 2009-2011. The book is not very complimentary to Larry Su...
Excellent, fair look at the financial crisis and the president's response thereto. excellent, insider, narrative driven look at what went wrong with Obama's economic policies..
Reads like two books. One following 3 very particular lives 1 exchange student from rural Afghanastan 2 one a lawyer and her client at GITMO 3 An American college graduate originally from Pakistan. These detailed actual stories are VERY fascinating. Its amazing the author can get these detail...
Eye-opening and some great perspectives here. I have a deep respect for authors who can maintain a level of professionalism when discussing hot subjects or politics. This book covers a lot of ground quickly, and you might have to do some quick look-ups for names and events if you're like me and w...
Interesting book. This is the story of the Suskind family, who have two sons, the younger one with autism. It is a meandering story, from Owen's regression into autism to his current adult life. This is an affluent family, since the father is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He writes, and the mo...
The nonfiction book, A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind is the story of a young African American boy’s journey through high school and his first year of college. Cedric, the protagonist, works hard during his high school career, making it to the top of his class, and eventually goes on to an Ivy...
National BestsellerRon Suskind’s book promises to be a bracing international thriller – an ensemble of uranium merchants and panicked diplomats, stealthy Jihadist soldiers and CIA operatives, anxious Muslim children and angry world leaders – a diverse cast of players who will define the struggle ...
It’s a part of Providence that Cedric has never seen, and he looks intently out of the bus’s scratched, cloudy window. Everything they pass is gray, from the dirty mounds of frozen snow to the steely clouds in a murky sky to the people—white and then, increasingly, black—who scuffle along, their ...