The best books lead you on to other books and down other rabbit holes…

Last year I read 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin, which in turn led me to read ‘Everybody Ought to be Rich’ – the biography of John Jakob Raskob (more on that another time).

I subsequently listened to Andrew Ross Sorkin’s interview on one of my favourite podcasts – The Compound & Friends – where he mentioned that one of his favourite books is Barbarians at the Gate, the story of the RJR Nabisco LBO in the late 80s.

The book is brilliant, as is the TV movie of the book. With this being a typical tongue in cheek moment…