American Icon vs Tower of Basel: Which Should You Read?

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…

Tower of Basel Adam LeBor · 2013 ★★★★☆ 3.9 323 pages · ≈ 5 h 59 m · Moderate

An investigative history of the Bank for International Settlements, the central bankers' own bank.