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The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

Charles D Ellis

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The right focus and discipline 5 out of 5 stars.
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Why does Goldman Sachs still have a $40 billion market capitalization while Lehman and Bear Stearns have become extinct? Charles Ellis answers that question and more in his latest book, The Partnership, as well as giving the reader an insider's view of what gave Goldman Sachs such an advantage. Like McKinsey & Company in consulting, Goldman Sachs walks the talk in hiring the right people and creating a culture that rewards long-term success.

This book takes an honest look at some of Goldman Sachs' missteps along the way, such as Long Term Capital Management, but also the considerable focus and discipline demonstrated in avoiding the easy short-term buck that seems to consistently blow up in our faces. Need I say more than AAA rated insured sub-prime derivative instruments?

It remains to be seen what the impact of the current financial crisis will be on Goldman Sachs. Regardless, this book shows why the death of investment banking may be a bit premature.

Charlie Ellis writes in his usual substantive yet engaging style. If you're looking for a great read with some very useful takeaways, I highly recommend reading this book.

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With unparalleled access to the firm's enigmatic leadership, The Partnership chronicles the brilliant men who built one of the world's largest investment banks.

FDR

Jean Edward Smith

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One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material to provide an engrossing narrative of one of America’s greatest presidents.

This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Roosevelt’s restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace permitted him to master countless challenges throughout his life. Smith recounts FDR’s battles with polio and physical disability, and how these experiences helped forge the resolve that FDR used to surmount the economic turmoil of the Great Depression and the wartime threat of totalitarianism. Here also is FDR’s private life depicted with unprecedented candor and nuance, with close attention paid to the four women who molded his personality and helped to inform his worldview: His mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, formidable yet ever supportive and tender; his wife, Eleanor, whose counsel and affection were instrumental to FDR’s public and individual achievements; Lucy Mercer, the great romantic love of FDR’s life; and Missy LeHand, FDR’s longtime secretary, companion, and confidante, whose adoration of her boss was practically limitless.

Smith also tackles head-on and in-depth the numerous failures and miscues of Roosevelt’s public career, including his disastrous attempt to reconstruct the Judiciary; the shameful internment of Japanese-Americans; and Roosevelt’s occasionally self-defeating Executive overreach. Additionally, Smith offers a sensitive and balanced assessment of Roosevelt’s response to the Holocaust, noting its breakthroughs and shortcomings.

Summing up Roosevelt’s legacy, Jean Smith declares that FDR, more than any other individual, changed the relationship between the American people and their government. It was Roosevelt who revolutionized the art of campaigning and used the burgeoning mass media to garner public support and allay fears. But more important, Smith gives us the clearest picture yet of how this quintessential Knickerbocker aristocrat, a man who never had to depend on a paycheck, became the common man’s president. The result is a powerful account that adds fresh perspectives and draws profound conclusions about a man whose story is widely known but far less well understood. Written for the general reader and scholars alike, FDR is a stunning biography in every way worthy of its subject.


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Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton

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“I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.”

With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys.

Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl “Clapton is God” on the walls of London’s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world's first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic “Layla.”

During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for George’s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit “I Shot the Sheriff.” He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included “Wonderful Tonight,” the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1977. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage.
In the eighties he would battle and beat alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful “Tears in Heaven.”

Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande

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Great book on surgery 4 out of 5 stars.
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Atul Gawande gratefully takes the reader to the back of the OR, a place open for a few, yet intriguing for many. Dr. Gawande is extremely frank and poignant, as he describes actual cases from his own surgical practice. He admits that cutting someone open for the first time is hell, praises surgery which gives chance to obese people, wonders about doctor's intuition, and remains human in every case.

As always, Atul Gawande is not just writing about medicine; this book reaches far beyond the realm of the operating room. He touches on the most complicated ethical questions of medicine and society as a whole. Gawande speaks of mistakes and our imperfect judgment; tackling the questions of good doctors gone bad along with malpractice claims and punishments. He makes the case for autopsy as a means of learning. He admits that medical students must practice on cadavers or animals in order to cut people open; all ethical questions are answered by means of vivid examples.

For instance, in the 1980s the death rate from a particular surgery would be about 10%. When the new surgical treatment of heart pathology arose, surgeons started trying the novice. At that training period, the rate of children death from this particular intervention increased to 25% of cases. Sounds horrible? Yes, but after surgeons learned, the rate fell down to just a couple percent. Was it worth it? Sure, granted the number of lives saved in the long run. Never, granted now many kids died just due to surgeons' learning. Would any doctor let anyone practice on his own kid? Never. At the same time, learning is a necessary part of medical progress.

Those questions dominate the book; Gawande ponders at the patient's right to choose, reminds us that doctors are human and prone to mistakes, reveals mysteries of complications, which are usually open only during the M&M - Mortality and Morbidity Conference behind the closed door. Gawande is not afraid to open the doors. Moreover, he is confident that openness is the only way to reduce the complications.

I almost wanted to say the book is too idealistic, except it's written by a person whose profession is to think realistically. Great book!

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In vivid accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor

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In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. Charles King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an isolated road near Baghdad. His son, Jordan, was seven months old.

A Journal for Jordan is a mother’s letter to her son–fierce in its honesty–about the father he lost before he could even speak. It is also a father’s advice and prayers for the son he will never know.

A father figure to the soldiers under his command, Charles moved naturally into writing to his son. In neat block letters, he counseled him on everything from how to withstand disappointment and deal with adversaries to how to behave on a date. And he also wrote, from his tent, of recovering a young soldier’s body, piece by piece, from a tank–and the importance of honoring that young man’s life. He finished the journal two months before his death while home on a two-week leave, so intoxicated with love for his infant son that he barely slept.

Finally, this is the story of Dana and Charles together–two seemingly mismatched souls who loved each other deeply. She was a Pulitzer Prize—winning editor for the New York Times who struggled with her weight. He was a decorated military officer with a sculpted body who got his news from television. She was impatient, brash, and cynical about love. He was excruciatingly shy and stubborn, and put his military service before anything else. In these pages, we relive with Dana the slow unfolding of their love, their decision to become a family, the chilling news that Charles has been deployed to Iraq, and the birth of their son.

In perhaps the most wrenching chapter in the book, Dana recounts her search for answers about Charles’s death. Unsatisfied with the army’s official version of what happened and determined to uncover the truth, she pored over summaries of battalion operations reports and drew on her well-honed reporting skills to interview the men who were with Charles on his last convoy, his commanding officers, and other key individuals. In the end, she arrived at an account of Charles’s death–and his last days in his battalion–that was more difficult to face than the story she had been told, but that affirmed the decency and courage of this warrior and father.

A Journal for Jordan is a tender introduction, a loving good-bye, a reporter’s inquiry into her soldier’s life, and a heartrending reminder of the human cost of war.


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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation

Sheila Weller

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Loved the idea for the book...but felt like reading a term paper 1 out of 5 stars.
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Loved the concept, insight, subject matter but the writing left so much to be desired. I also failed to appreciate the writer's cultural references. This could have been a really wonderful book if it was written less like a technical paper. Felt like a mandatory book to be read in a Women's Studies class...yikes.

Fabulous 5 out of 5 stars.
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First things first. Sheila Weller is a pro. If the national media had done the same kind of quality reporting and research on stories of national importance as Sheila devoted to this wonderful history of three pivotal figures of the music of our time, who knows whether history could have been different.

She has devoted these considerable talents to the three stories of musicians who each in her own way helped to shape the music of the 1970s -- Carole King from Brooklyn, Joni Mitchell from Saskatchewan and Carly Simon from Manhattan. They were all different, but all contributed, sometimes in multiple ways, particularly King who transformed herself from Brill Building pop writer for hire to the L.A. Earth Mother who scored with Tapestry.

I first listened to the music years ago, and quite frankly had forgotten much of it. It was only when I started converting my vinyl to digital that I got interested again and began to read some of the books about the music and the time period.

Weller truly brings a sense of the times and of the challenges each woman faced. She combines a really gossipy account of each of the subjects with a serious appreciation for the music and of their eras. (Obviously I write this as a man. Women will probably have a better, and deeper appreciation.)

If I had one gripe, it's that even at 500 pages, I would have liked to see someone else included. As great as Carole, Joni and Carly were, I would have put Linda Ronstadt in, probably instead of Carly. For my money, Linda's voice was, and remains, the best of the three. She wasn't the songwriter the others were, but she was also in the middle of the Laurel Canyon scene. Perhaps Weller can write about her some day.

This book is a great contribution to the understanding of some of my favorite music. In fact, it helped change a little piece of my life. I went back and listened to Tapestry and heard a song I'd forgotten about amid all the hits -- a nice bouncy little piece called, "Beautiful." Now, first thing when I get in the car to go to work, I put on that song. It's a great way to start the day, and I probably wouldn't have done it without first reading Weller's book. That's a contribution in itself I'll always appreciate.

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Girls Like Us is an epic treatment of Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon, midcentury women who dared to break tradition and become what none had been before them---confessors in song, rock superstars, and adventurers of heart and soul.

Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession

Anne Rice

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4.5 stars - Fascinating on several levels 4 out of 5 stars.
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With the release of "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" the reading world discovered that Anne Rice, queen of Vampire and occult fiction, had undergone a profound religious conversion returning to her Catholic roots. So profound was her conversion that she has set the goal of only writing about Jesus, in one way or another, for the remainder of her life. This spiritual confession is about her journey away from Him and back to Him.

In the rich and sensuous prose her fans are familiar with Rice writes of her childhood in Catholic New Orleans, her early devotion to Christ and the Catholic Church, and the events that led her to abandon her faith early in college. She write about her years as an atheist and how her struggle with meaning in life came out in her fiction. Lastly, you will learn why, after forty years of staunch atheism, she was able to believe again.

Although a bit wordy (this is Anne Rice after all), this is a beautifully written, fascinating account of inner life and faith. You will not find torrid details or in depth accounts of many things that fans typically want to know about their favorite authors. What you will find is far more rewarding. Rice examines what her faith was founded on as a child, why it foundered, and how she made it back to God and Jesus. For those who do not believe this could be a great explanation of religious conversion. For those who do believe, Catholic or Protestant, you will see yourself in Mrs. Rice as she struggles with the most difficult questions while still loving her God and Savior.

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In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith.

And now, in her powerful memoir, Rice tells the story of the spiritual transformation that produced a complete change in her literary goals. She begins with her girlhood in New Orleans as the devout child in a deeply religious family. She writes about her years in Berkeley, where her career as a novelist began with the publication of Interview with the Vampire. She writes about loss and tragedy (her mother’s drinking; the death of her daughter and, later, her beloved husband); about new joys; about the birth of her son. She tells how after an adult lifetime of questioning, she experienced the intense conversion and consecration to Christ that lie behind her most recent novels.

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard

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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.
After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.
Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.
From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut.

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Kate Summerscale

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In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.

At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.

Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable—that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today: from the cryptic Sergeant Cuff in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade.

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it author Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written.

Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism against All Odds

McCarthy, Jenny

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Fighting a bigger battle than just her child-Kudos to her! 4 out of 5 stars.
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As a mother of a child who is no longer considered autistic, I have to say I am impressed with the passion Jenny McCarthy shows on this issue. I remember when my son was only a baby before autism entered our lives, I was at the library looking at baby books and I came across one of her books on motherhood. I remember thinking "Yeah right, what can Jenny McCarthy teach me about motherhood". Im not the "up-tight" type. Im just a 40+ mother of a small child who never thought much of the "new generation" of MTV/reality tv. Playboy either for that matter. I had no interest in her views. But I had to eat my words when I learned she was going through the same thing I was. While helping her son find his voice she found hers as well. When reading "Louder Than Words" I found myself relating to alot of what she was going through. My son didnt have the seizures her son has. Like any mother of an autistic knows no two children are alike. She points this out many times in both of these books. I'm sure most parents feel much of the same emotions as she feels. I admire her straight forwardness in both books. This is what captured and held my attention. I have read many stories of autistic children but I have to admit my favorites are stories of those that are recovered. You can go to any website, support group, or blog and learn of the daily struggles, the heart ache, the expense, the theories, and treatments. But quite honestly, after reading so much, if Im going to take the time to read a book on autism I would rather it be one of HOPE: A success story written by an autistic. Or a story by a parent who sucessfully brought her child out of the world of autism or helped him/her to function in the world the best that that child can. For this reason I liked this book. What a good idea a book of many success stories. My favorites are "A Real Boy","The Boy Who Loved Windows", "Let Me Hear Your Voice" "Look Me In The Eyes", "Thinking In Pictures". I believe this particular book "Mother Warriors" was too short and too one-sided (All the children have gut issues.) I get that her agenda is to educate as many people as she can. Her focus is on what hurt and helped her child. And like she said this info may help many more, so how could this be a bad thing? I dont think it is a dangerous book, we are smart enough to take what it is we need from this book and go about helping our children. So if you try the diet and it doesnt work what harm have you done. The harm is if you stop vaccinating, but she doesnt advocate that. She is fighting for a new, safer schedule for the vaccines for every person's child. She, like other parents of autistics can fight the best battle for their child because they care more for that individual than any other. I also watched her on Oprah and what I walked away with most was the emphasis she put on a new schedule for vaccines. Also something Holly Robinson said about the small window of time we have to best help these children. The window of 0-5yrs of age especially 0-3 yrs(early intervention). This is what I believe helped my child so therefore I am an advocate of that. Who could blame me? A person will support what works for them. I was lucky to have a pediatrician that didnt waste time. When I was concerned about my son not talking at 1yr old (I read "The Boy Who Loved Windows" when my son was only 6 mos old). His doctor said if he isnt saying Mama and Dada by 15mos and meaning mom and dad then he will make a referral and by 18 mos old we had the diagnosis. Within 2 mos he was in early intervention and I believe that was my son's ticket to recovery. He had the toe walking, hand leading, hand flapping, lack of eye contact, solitude. I too would have stopped at nothing to recover my son so I am impressed and sympathetic to anyone who has to fight for their child. This book in particular was filled with alot of good info and I believe anyone who has a child who is on the spectrum should listen to ALL mothers who speak of autism then make up their minds for themselves on the action they will take.Please dont judge others who chose differently. We are all fighting the war against autism and there are those that want to silence us and have us accept what we're dealt. But Jenny is fighting a bigger battle than just one child she is fighting for all. Could the book have been better? Absolutly. Is she a great writer? Not particularly, but she is getting a message out there and making people think about the bigger picture. That is what parents have been wanting to happen for a long time. Read the book. If you dont like it donate it to the library maybe others will read it and get more out of it. If changing just one thing in this book can improve your child just a little isnt it money well spent?

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As the companion to Louder Than Words, Jenny McCarthys next book will be a must-read for every parent of an autistic child and will share stories of hope and recovery from parents of autistic children around the country, as well as the next chapter in Jenny and her son Evans story.