Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild (2018)
Amazon: 621 reviews x 4.5 Stars
Great title, timely topic. Skimmed it to find very predictable material: people at the bottom, lots of them, mad at people at the top, few of them. Marx noticed this too.
Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company
Marc Benioff (and Carlye Adler) (2009)
Amazon: 155 reviews x 4.5 Stars
Great title. I love learning about the history of technology and technologic change, from the 1800s right up to today and tomorrow. But this book is one- or two-page sections about obvious cliche's. Along the lines of: "Focus on Making The Customer Happy!" and "Make Your Customer Your #1 Sales Agent!" Sure, these are true, but Winston Churchill won WW-II with the rule, "Never never give up" and yet there's a lot more to say about how he did it.
I would have liked, and might have expected, cases studies about Salesforce at inflection points - "A" was going wrong, and we considering doing B or C, and chose B, but it didn't work, so then we argued about trying D or E, choosing E for these reasons. That's not this book, despite the title.
Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond
Alexandra Horowitz (2019)
Amazon: 14 reviews x 4 stars
Great cover. How could you not pick up this book? Flipped through it; it's the 30th book about human-dog relationships in five years, I think.
