兩本書評

第一次在matters發貼，想分享最近看的兩本精彩好書:

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (by Matthew Desmond)

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (by John Carreyrou)

前者講美國最窮的一批租客被業主逼遷。後者寫一位年輕有為的矽谷創業精英如何騙到世人。兩書並看，頗能折射出美國社會的側面。現先轉貼Amazon書介，有空再寫書評，稍後補上。

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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.

https://www.amazon.com/Evicted-Poverty-Profit-American-City/dp/0553447459

中譯本 《扫地出门：美国城市的贫穷与暴力》 最近出版，以下是项飙寫的中文導讀：

https://book.douban.com/review/9523447/

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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.

In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.

A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/152473165X