Congrats to both speakers. Meredith Wadman’s The Vaccine Race (“Scientific anecdotes, historical detail and quirky characters enliven this tale of how researchers developed vaccines against polio, rubella, rabies and more.”) and Liza Mundy’s Code Girls (“Because they were sworn to secrecy, the women recruited to decipher German and Japanese codes were barely known after World… Read more »
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Daniel McGinn’s book tops this Forbes Summer Reading List
Psyched Up by Daniel McGinn is the first book on Forbes’ Kimberly Whitler’s summer reading list. To kick it off, I will share a hot-off-of-the-presses book that I have really enjoyed. It’s Psyched Up: How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help you Succeed, by Daniel McGinn. It isn’t a marketing, management, technical, or leadership… Read more »
Sue Klebold on Newsweek’s Favorite Books of 2016 List
Sue Klebold’s A Mother’s Reckoning one of 13 to make the cut. The story of a parent who loses a child is always painful. But when that child and his friend took guns to school and shot other students—killing 12 teenagers and a teacher and wounding 24 others before taking their own lives in one… Read more »
Bill Gates: Favorite Books of 2016
Gretchen Bakke’s The Grid among the mentions. This book, about our aging electrical grid, fits in one of my favorite genres: “Books About Mundane Stuff That Are Actually Fascinating.” Part of the reason I find this topic fascinating is because my first job, in high school, was writing software for the entity that controls the… Read more »
Carol Anderson and David Greenberg among WaPo’s Notable Non-fiction List
Congratulations to David Greenberg and Carol Anderson for making the Washington Post’s Notable Non-Fiction book list. [WashingtonPost.com]
Sue Klebold’s A Mother’s Reckoning named one of the Best Memoirs of 2016 by The Washington Post
Sue Klebold made the list among Bruce Springsteen, Diane Rehm and others. Seventeen years after the Columbine shooting, the mother of Dylan Klebold tells her story. This book is an apology to the loved ones of the victims, an account of the Klebold family’s life in the days and months after the shooting and a… Read more »
The 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards: David Burkus, Bob Nease & Play Bigger on the Longlist
David Burkus, Bob Nease & the authors of Play Bigger have all made 800-CEO-READ’s longlist for best business book 2016. There is no getting around the incredible amount of work this time of year brings to 800-CEO-READ. Not only are we in peak publishing season, it is also our awards season—and we do all of… Read more »
At Politico, Carol Anderson named one of the 50 “thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016”
“This year, in her book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson argues that black Americans’ advances have always been followed by white Americans’ efforts to resist them or roll them back. After slavery was abolished, there were Jim Crow laws; after Brown v. Board of Education, whites segregated themselves in… Read more »
Two BrightSight speakers’ books on the WaPo Summer Reading List
Sue Klebold’s A Mother’s Reckoning and David Greenberg’s Republic of Spin are both this Washington Post list.
Gary Rivlin’s Katrina named a Top 10 USA Today book of 2015
Rivlin’s compassionate, yet unsparing reporting establishes one clear, hard point about the 2005 hurricane and flood that ravaged New Orleans: That the catastrophe didn’t end when the waters receded. [USAToday.com]
