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An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
by Wendell Potter
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by Christopher Leonard
Published Oct 2020
Read ReviewsJust as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard's Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America.
by John Carreyrou
Published Jan 2020
Read ReviewsThe full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.
by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Published Mar 2018
Read ReviewsAward-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems.
by Kate Moore
Published Mar 2018
Read ReviewsThe incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger.
by Bob Shacochis
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsA magnum opus that brings to life an intricate portrait of catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror and the America we are today.
by George Packer
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation.
by Ira Byock
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsA palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.
by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsIt is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. This groundbreaking book goes an important stage beyond either of these ideas: it demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well-off as well as the poor.
by Michael J. Sandel
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsMichael J. Sandel's "Justice" course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day. Justice offers readers the same exhilarating journey that captivates Harvard students.
by Steve Salerno
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsSHAM shows how thinly credentialed "experts" now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries.
by Michael Moore
Published May 2004
Read Reviews'As fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown....Whatever your politics, Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack.
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