Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 📱 Kindle
Money and Power
William D. Cohan · 2011
86/100
👍 Worth It
William D. Cohan pulls off a genuinely deep, well-sourced history of Goldman Sachs, landing rare insider access and earning raves from the New York Times and Financial Times alike. It's dense and occasionally short on independent analysis, but as a piece of financial journalism it's the real deal — just know there's some rough insider language quoted along the way.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: contains quoted crude/violent language from an insider source. We still scored it 86; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Faith & family safety70
Substance / usefulness90
Craft & writing85
Originality80
Evidence & accuracy88
Hype vs delivers80
Age-fit70
Human-eye read85
Penny’s verdict86
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