Crash Course, by Paul Ingrassia
Paul Ingrassia is the former president of Dow Jones Newswires, a former Detroit bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1993 for reporting on the management crises at General Motors, and a chronicler of the auto industry for more than 25 years.

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Rules For Radicals, by Saul Alinksy
Saul Alinsky's 1972 book is rated a 10 to get your attention. Alinsky states his purpose in the first paragraph: "The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."

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The Big and Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis
The subject was tailor made for Michael Lewis: how several sets of oddballs figured out--all on their own and with no help from the so-called pros--that the frenzied marketing of the subprime mortgage bond...

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The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley
Along with Hotchkiss and Yale pal Brit Hadden, Henry Luce (1898-1967) published the first issue of Time magazine in 1923 when he was only 24 years old, launching what was to become a huge publishing empire.

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The Voice of the Violin, by Andrea Camilleri
Of the many books I have reviewed for TRE, only one series has provoked subscribers to thank me for drawing the author's writings to their attention--and that is Andrea Camilleri's masterful ten-volume series about Sicilian homicide chief Salvo Montalbano.

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