Several Zócalo guests made the critics’ best books roster during this annual time of reflection and list-making. The Washington Post picked Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money and Peter Gosselin’s High Wire among their handful of business book selections, along with Errol Morris’ Standard Operating Procedure, authored with Philip Gourevitch, and Walter Russell Mead’s God and Gold. (Ferguson also made the Financial Times‘ list.) The New York Times chose Anne Enright’s collection Yesterday’s Weather. And the Los Angeles Times went for Gustavo Arellano’s Orange County.

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