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The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World

8 best books like The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World (Gay Talese): I, Claudius, Our Man in Havana, Ragtime, The Intuitionist, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar, The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

I, Claudius
AuthorRobert Graves
Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culminate in the deified insanity...
Our Man in Havana
AuthorGraham Greene
ISBN0140184937
Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,'...
Ragtime
AuthorE.L. Doctorow
ISBN0812978188
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century & the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, NY, at the home of an affluent American family. One...
The Intuitionist
AuthorColson Whitehead
ISBN0385493002
A New York Times Notable Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
Two warring factions in the Department of Elevator Inspectors in a bustling metropolis vie for dominance: the Empiricists, who go by the book and rigorously check every structural and mechanical detail, and the Intuitionists,...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
AuthorTom Wolfe
ISBN0553381342
Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him,...
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar
AuthorH.W. Brands
ISBN0393330508
Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
AuthorDaniel Markovits
ISBN0735221995
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy

It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal...
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
AuthorKim Phillips-Fein
An epic and riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the politics of austerity that continues to shape the world today

When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible: how could the capital of the...
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