The Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book Award: The Longlist
August 09, 2010
The longlist for The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year was announced this morning. And just as interesting as the list itself, which includes a novel this year, is the fact that Lloyd Blankfein is recusing himself as a judge. He is doing so because "a number of books on this year’s longlist address various aspects of the financial crisis," a crisis Blankfein was intimately involved in as CEO of Goldman Sachs.
The longlist for The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year was announced this morning. And just as interesting as the list itself, which includes a novel this year, is the fact that Lloyd Blankfein is recusing himself as a judge. He is doing so because "a number of books on this year's longlist address various aspects of the financial crisis," a crisis Blankfein was intimately involved in as CEO of Goldman Sachs. Hi is, in fact, a subject in some of those books—including Too Big to Fail, which we named the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year* in 2009.
The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs longlist for 2010 is:
- The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? by Ian Bremmer, Portfolio
- How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees by Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon, Broadway Books
- Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis by Fred Goodman, Simon & Schuster
- Union Atlantic: A Novel by Adam Haslett, Nan A Talese
- The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar, Twelve
- The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter Kiechel, Harvard Business Review Press
- The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton
- More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby, Penguin Press
- All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, Portfolio
- What Works: Success in Stressful Times by Hamish McRae, HarperCollins
- Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram Rajan, Princeton University Press
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley, HarperCollins
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking
- MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, Don Tapscott & Anthony Williams, Portfolio
