I have a shelf of books that I refer to as my scandals and kerfuffles section. It's my nonfiction section that includes things like:
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Bad Blood by John Carrreyrou
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Dark Wire by Joseph Cox
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The Trolls of Wall Street by Nathaniel Popper
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Provenance by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo
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Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean
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Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
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All the Presidents Men By Woodward and Bernstein
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Wonder Drug by Jennifer Vanderbes
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Empire of Pain by Patrick Keefe
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Veritas by Ariel Sabar
and honestly a bunch more but I was wondering what else people had to offer. I like books that are narrative nonfiction covering, well, various scandals and kerfuffles. I like to learn from these books. I bolded the ones I particularly liked.
by Hmmhowaboutthis
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_Bad Blood_ is the GOAT in my opinion. I’ve read many of those on your list. Here are a few others that I read over the past year or so:
– {{DisneyWar by James B. Stewart}}
– {{Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams}}
– {{Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul by Jamie Ducharme}}
– {{The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty by Michael Wolff}}
– {{Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter}}
– {{Going Infinite by Michael Lewis}}
Enjoy!
The Panic Virus, by Seth Mnookin. It’s about the anti-vaccine movement. This is an older book and it focuses, at least initially, on Andrew Wakefield and his falsified research linking autism to vaccination. It’s pretty detached and not hyper-dramatic, so there’s this point at which I was just kind of reeling about what was going on.
Kennedy Babylon: A Century of Scandal and Depravity by Howie Carr
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W Loewen