Items by By JANET MASLIN
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Books of The Times: Diving in Search of the ‘Great Vampire Squid’
Posted: April 11th, 2011, 8:40pm EDT by By JANET MASLIN
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In “Money and Power,” William D. Cohan provides a minutiae-filled tome about Goldman Sachs’s broad reach.
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Books of The Times: He Heard America Singing
Posted: January 30th, 2011, 12:14pm EST by By JANET MASLIN
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In “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World,” John Szwed, a biographer of Miles Davis and Sun Ra, covers the life of a tireless music folklorist and anthologist.
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Books of The Times: Cancer as Old Foe and Goad to Science
Posted: November 10th, 2010, 11:30pm EST by By JANET MASLIN
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Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee writes a “biography” of cancer and of those who have fought it throughout history.
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Books of The Times: Roger Lowenstein Traces ‘The End of Wall Street’
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 11:55pm EDT by By JANET MASLIN
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The journalist Roger Lowenstein’s anecdotes and analysis cover the lead-up to the financial meltdown and the frantic steps to solve it.
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Books of The Times: Agassi Basks in His Own Spotlight
Posted: November 9th, 2009, 3:01am EST by By JANET MASLIN
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As described in this autobiography, Andre Agassi’s life is lively but narrow, since his curiosity does not extend far beyond tennis.
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Books of The Times: Fasten Your Seat Belts, There’s Code to Crack
Posted: September 13th, 2009, 10:00pm EDT by By JANET MASLIN
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“The Lost Symbol,” Dan Brown’s overdue follow-up to “Angels & Demons” and “The Da Vinci Code,” brings sexy back to a genre that had been left for dead.
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Books of The Times: Harvard Pals Grow Rich: Chronicling Facebook Without Face Time
Posted: July 21st, 2009, 3:44am EDT by By JANET MASLIN
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Ben Mezrich enthusiastically favors hot air over specifics in his nonfictionish book about the creation of Facebook.
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Books of The Times: Smiley Faces in Our Chromosomes
Posted: January 18th, 2009, 11:42pm EST by By JANET MASLIN
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“Born to Be Good” identifies the adaptive benefits of emotions, and makes its case for the biological functions served by physical expressiveness.
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Books of The Times: Crashes, Goofs and Schadenfreude: Wild Ride in the Age of Financial Hysteria
Posted: December 14th, 2008, 11:30pm EST by By JANET MASLIN
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“Panic” carries the cautionary message that the wisdom brought by a financial collapse is wisdom that rarely sticks.
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Books of The Times: The Richest Man and How He Grew (and Grew His Company, Too)
Posted: September 29th, 2008, 12:42am EDT by By JANET MASLIN
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Alice Schroeder’s biography of Warren Buffett approaches him seriously, covers vast terrain and tells a fascinating story.
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Books of The Times: You Promised That You’d Forget Me Not, but You Forgot to Remember
Posted: March 27th, 2008, 12:50am EDT by By JANET MASLIN
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Stefan Merrill Block's improbably upbeat debut novel tells the story of a family's genetic destiny — early-onset Alzheimer’s disease — in a roundabout and fanciful way.
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Books of The Times: The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics
Posted: March 16th, 2008, 11:09pm EDT by By JANET MASLIN
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Melody Petersen has written an angrily illuminating book on drug-related corporate malfeasance and patient peril.
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Books of The Times: The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics
Posted: March 16th, 2008, 11:09pm EDT by By JANET MASLIN
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Melody Petersen has written an angrily illuminating book on drug-related corporate malfeasance and patient peril.