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From NPR's yearly reading list, Books We Love, three NPR colleagues share their suggestions for reads on current events.

Isn’t it odd that so many great books have been written on corporate crime in recent years and yet so very few win the top prize in American journalism – the Pulitzer Prize? In the first twenty-one years of this century, winners in the general nonfiction book category included books about race, immigration, overseas terrorism,…

Decades before two Boeing 737 MAX airliners crashed in 2018 and 2019 the fall of the US plane maker had been set in train, and with it an increasingly wilful blindness to safety, writes aviation journalist Peter Robison.

Boeing’s former CEO defended the company’s safety record after a pair of deadly crashes, and implied some of the blame lay with insufficiently trained pilots. But a new book argues changes in corporate culture and government oversight led Boeing to prioritize profit over safety.

FLYING BLIND The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing By Peter Robison

A new book about the Boeing 737 MAX disaster exposes the company’s allergy to the truth.

Peter Robison’s “Flying Blind” tells the full story of two air disasters and Boeing’s role in the crashes.

Boeing has long been synonymous with American enterprise — a company that had a hand in pioneering flight, moon landings, World War II bomber missions and more. But in 2018 and then again in 2019, Boeing’s newest feat of engineering — the 737 MAX airplane — crashed twice, the flights within five months of each other, leaving 346 people dead as a result.

The 737 MAX was grounded in 2019 after two deadly crashes exposed flaws pilots hadnt been told about. Journalist Peter Robison says Boeing cut costs and co-opted regulators in designing the craft.

The galling account of the 737 MAX Boeing tragedies. Review by John Carvill