Power Game: How Washington Works

7 best books like Power Game: How Washington Works (Hedrick Smith): Noble House, Cryptonomicon, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Tai-Pan, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Noble House

Author

James Clavell

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13: 9780440164845.

The tai-pan, Ian Dunross, struggles to rescue Struan's from the precarious financial position left by his predecessor. To do this, he seeks partnership with an American millionaire, while trying to ward off his arch-rival Quillan...

Cryptonomicon

Author	Neal Stephenson
ISBN	0060512806

Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe....

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Author	Michelle Alexander
ISBN	1595581030

"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot...

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Author	Robert A. Caro
ISBN	0394720245

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost...

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Author

Lawrence Wright

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews...

Tai-Pan

Author	James Clavell
ISBN	0440184622

An Alternate Cover of this edition can be found here.

Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator...

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Author	Robert Iger
ISBN	0399592091

A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time's most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.

Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005,...