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Mark Gimein Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Mark Gimein is a journalist. Editor, writer. Managing editor, print @TheWeek ex- @VillageVoice, @Bloomberg, Bio: https://t.co/eru2gLkAQA Email: markgimein@gmail

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Book Cover for: When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach, Ashlee Vance

When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

Ashlee Vance
Mark GimeinMark Gimein

When the Heavens Went on Sale is an optimist’s book. That alone has value now, when many journalists instinctively extol the virtues of caution...Even Vance’s title is a challenge to the status quo, defying the kinds of earnest experts who can be counted on to profess dismay...

Paperback, 2024

$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, Andy Greenberg

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

Andy Greenberg
Mark GimeinMark Gimein

What might you do if you knew that no one would ever find out? In the Bitcoin age, a lot of people have tried to test that scenario. Greenberg ... deftly assembles a rogues’ gallery of characters who fell prey to this false sense of invulnerability ...

Paperback, 2024

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend, Rob Copeland

The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

Rob Copeland
Mark GimeinMark Gimein

A terrific dagger of a book packed with cringey detail... about how a man of surpassing mediocrity used money to control and humiliate, and how much people abased themselves for it. Which, come to think of it, makes it one of the better books ever written about Wall Street.

Hardcover, 2023

$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book