American Icon vs The Formula: Which Should You Read?

Cover of American Icon American Icon Bryce G. Hoffman · 2012 ★★★★☆ 4.5 363 pages · ≈ 6 h 43 m · Moderate

At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler…

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Cover of The Formula The Formula Luke Dormehl · 2014 ★★★★☆ 3.7 296 pages · ≈ 5 h 29 m · Moderate

In The Formula, Luke Dormehl takes readers inside the world of numbers, asking how we came to believe in the all-conquering power of algorithms; introducing the mathematicians, artificial intelligence experts and…

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American IconThe Formula
Hardcover 4.1 (7) 3.2 (5)
Google Books 5.0 (1) —
Apple Books 4.5 (412) —

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American IconThe Formula
Ratings 412 5
Editions 2 6
Pages 363 296

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