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Books like When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

12 books with a reading profile close to When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.

1

The Last Days of Night

by Graham Moore

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, business strategy

In 1888 New York, young attorney Paul Cravath takes on a legal defense for George Westinghouse, who is being sued by Thomas Edison for one billion dollars over the invention of the light bulb.
2

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

by Bethany McLean

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · business strategy, narrative

Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind document the organizational culture and accounting strategies that led to the collapse of the Enron Corporation.
3

1929

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Andrew Ross Sorkin reconstructs the escalating collisions between federal regulators and financial titans leading up to the Great Crash.
4

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · business strategy, narrative

Michael Lewis tracks the mechanics of the 2008 global financial collapse by following a small group of eccentric investors who anticipated the subprime mortgage crisis.
5

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · business strategy, narrative

Andrew Ross Sorkin reconstructs the day-by-day mechanics of the 2008 financial collapse, focusing on the frantic negotiations between Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, and the chief e…
6

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

by Bryan Burrough

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · business strategy, narrative

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar chronicle the 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, the largest corporate takeover of its era.
7

Rocket Billionaires

by Tim Fernholz

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, business strategy

Tim Fernholz details the commercial pivot of the American space industry from government monopoly to private competition.
8

The space barons

by Christian Davenport

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, business strategy

Christian Davenport chronicles the private space race driven by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos as they challenge the aerospace establishment.
9

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

by Harold G. Moore

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Lieutenant General Harold G.
10

Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Mark Kurlansky traces the development of human civilization through the lens of sodium chloride, documenting how this common mineral shaped global trade routes, military strategies, and economic hierarchies.
11

The Potato

by Larry Zuckerman

Also outward-looking · history, narrative

Larry Zuckerman traces the social evolution of the potato from a despised botanical curiosity to a foundational pillar of the Western economy between the late eighteenth century and World War I.
12

Fermat's Enigma

by Simon Singh

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Simon Singh chronicles the three-century pursuit of a solution to Pierre de Fermat’s Last Theorem, a deceptively simple conjecture stating that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n…

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