I loved this historical biography of America's greatest landscape painter, and not just because I have an intense personal interest in Church. Johnson's writing is luminously beautiful, her assiduous research never impedes the narrative, and the illustrations are spectacular.
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Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote some of the most beautiful prose in the English language.
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Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, a book I wish I'd written, has written another book I wish I'd written.
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Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, a book I wish I'd written, has written another book I wish I'd written.
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Yes, a book about the history of the bond market can be entertaining and enlightening.
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In simple, crystalline prose, Clements shares a lifetime of wisdom on using money to buy happiness, counteracting the behavioral quirks that bedevil our financial decisions, and making family and friends an integral part of our wealth.
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His narrative of the development of decision-making research over the past half-century is rich with personal anecdotes, gentle humor, continuous learning, and profound humility about how prone we all are to misjudge and misunderstand risks.
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Ahamed, the banker and investment manager whose previous book Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World covered the crash of 1929, writes well.
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He develops simple, clever, quantitative rules of thumb to guide saving, spending, and investing as you progress through different levels of wealth.
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Carlson, author of the aptly named blog A Wealth of Common Sense, brings a similar approach to this book. While much of it might seem familiar to sophisticated readers, Carlson's clean and clear use of data — both in charts and text — makes basic points memorable.
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Couple this book with Edward Chancellor's also excellent The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest, published in 2022, and you can learn most of what you need to think intelligently about bonds.
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His sketches are often little more than scribbled boxes, circles, and arrows, but many will make you smile, some will make you laugh, and all will make you think.
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Edmans summarizes the field of behavioral finance research with a refreshingly light touch.
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Following along as he picks data fallacies apart is a lot of fun, and I can't wait to read the whole book.
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I learned a lot and LOL'd a lot reading this book. I also disagreed with it a lot.
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It might have worked even better as two separate books, rather than as one short book trying to do two things. But Booth's writing is soothing, and his overall message — investing is simply a bet on human innovation and progress — is a truism worth repeating. Young people, in particular, might benefit from reading it.
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Baker meticulously traces these changes as they materialized in art, literature, and the ledgers and letters of Italian merchants.
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Ritholtz does exactly that, running through such surefire ways to wreck your wealth as ignoring taxes, paying excessive fees, misinterpreting data, overreacting to short-term trends, and trading too much.
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