NPR's picks for 2021 books on current events
From NPR's yearly reading list, Books We Love, three NPR colleagues share their suggestions for reads on current events.
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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