Recommended Read, Watch, Listen List (Summer 2020)

A list of suggested books, movies and podcasts.

Books

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein (2017)
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, Jennifer L. Eberhardt (2019)
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century, Dorothy Roberts (2011)
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo (2019)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo (2018)
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi (2016)
How to Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson (2015)

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy, Michael Lewis (2019)
We the Corporations: How American Corporations Won their Civil Rights, Adam Winkler (2019)
Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, Katharina Pistor (2019)
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, Jesse Eisinger (2017)
Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity, Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart (2018)
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets, Thomas Philippon (2019)
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, Neil Barofsky (2012)

Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction, David Enrich (2020)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou (2018)
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire, William Dalrymple (2019)
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, Tim Wu (2016)
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber, Susan Fowler (2020)
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, Emily Chang (2018)
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, Katharine Eban (2019)

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Rebecca Henderson (2020)
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond (2016)
Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy: Dani Rodrik (2019)
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand Giridharadas (2019)
Corporate Diplomacy: Building Reputations and Relationships with External Stakeholders, Wit Henisz (2014)
Finance and the Good Society, Robert Shiller (2012)

“13th”(2016 Netflix documentary about racial inequality and the role of the prison industrial complex in the mass incarceration crisis)
“I Am Not Your Negro” (2016, a movie about James Baldwin’s recounting of the history of racism in America and the Civil Rights Movement, while also being about black representation in the media and Hollywood)
“Dirty Money,” Seasons 1-2 (Netflix)
“The Big Short” (feature 2015; the 2010 book by Michael Lewis is also recommended)
“The Smartest Guys in the Room” (documentary, 2005 about Enron; the 2004 book The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind is also recommended)
“Dark Waters” (2019)
HBO “Silicon Valley,” especially Season 6. (See this story https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/16/qa-stanford-faculty-silicon-valley/)