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Ian Fraser Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Ian Fraser is a business journalist. Journalist and author of Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain. ‘A masterpiece’ – @UniMainz_Angl_P; ‘Read it & weep’ – @martinwolf_

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Book Cover for: How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead, Dambisa Moyo

How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead

Dambisa Moyo
Ian FraserIan Fraser

@MerrynSW @dambisamoyo I’ve not listened to the podcast yet, but I did enjoy @TheEconomist’s review of Dambisa Moyo’s How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly—and the Stark Choices Ahead. https://t.co/gFClpJJVci

Paperback, 2012

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, Bryan Burrough

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough
Ian FraserIan Fraser

Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar’s Barbarians at the Gate and Philip Augar’s The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism were books that inspired me to write Shredded! @EdinburghLoM https://t.co/biuyvtJjsa

Paperback, 2009

$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything, Oliver Bullough

Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

Oliver Bullough
Ian FraserIan Fraser

This unmissable history traces Britain’s cynical transition over 70 years from imperial power to kleptocrats’ best friend. @TimAdamsWrites reviews @OliverBullough’s “Butler to the World”. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/21/butler-to-the-world-by-oliver-bullough-review-bent-britain-at-your-service

Hardcover, 2022

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Brazilian Adventure, Peter Fleming

Brazilian Adventure

Peter Fleming
Ian FraserIan Fraser

@Chris_Skinner More trivia: Ian Fleming’s cousins included Robin Fleming, merchant banker, bagpiper, art collector and owner of Black Mount estate in the Highlands. IF had three bothers, one of whom was travel writer and author of Brazilian Adventure Peter Fleming. https://t.co/2X2EWXAgQC

Paperback, 2023

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Poor Things

Alasdair Gray
Ian FraserIan Fraser

You’d have thought this trailer for the film Poor Things would have credited the author of the 1992 novel on which it’s based — Alasdair Gray. @PoorThingsFilm https://t.co/5imqQriOds

Paperback, 2023

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan
Ian FraserIan Fraser

Since only four of the sixty-six songs in Bob Dylan’s ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song’ are sung by women, Amanda Petrusich put together this alternative list which includes works by @jonimitchell @maryjblige @bjork @StevieNicks @amywinehouse & @tinaturner. https://t.co/HrsbencnRm

Hardcover, 2022

$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ulysses: Second Edition, James Joyce

Ulysses: Second Edition

James Joyce
Ian FraserIan Fraser

@dansaltzstein I'm just wondering who was reading James Joyce's Ulysses. I guess @DavidBowieReal

Paperback, 2022

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and its Causes, Adam Smith

Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and its Causes

Adam Smith
Ian FraserIan Fraser

Updating Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations for the #climate crisis. “People like Adam Smith not only articulated economic ideas but also looked at philosophy and science. We need to be more interdisciplinary as economists in the 21st century,” said @UofGVC https://t.co/FEOGCwyjWv

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Book Cover for: Capitalism And Slavery, Williams Eric

Capitalism And Slavery

Williams Eric
Ian FraserIan Fraser

In Capitalism and Slavery, the historian Eric Williams noted that Britain defined itself not by the immoral ways it had enriched itself for centuries but by its decision to stop doing the worst of those things, even as it kept the riches. @garyyounge https://t.co/7ja8d5k7nq

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Book Cover for: Rogue Institution: Vigilante Injustice, Lawlessness, and Disorder at the Air Force Academy, David W. Graney

Rogue Institution: Vigilante Injustice, Lawlessness, and Disorder at the Air Force Academy

David W. Graney
Ian FraserIan Fraser

Rogue Institution: Revisiting the podcast I did with @Roger_Edwards around the time my book Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain was published. #NatWest https://rogeredwards.co.uk/ian-fraser-on-writing-about-rbs-the-bank-that-broke-britain/?utm_content=buffer3dea0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer https://t.co/J7vR5qPMtQ

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