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Finalists names for business book of the year

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs have named the six books selected as finalists for Business Book of the Year 2013.

They are:

The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers (UK subtitle); Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire (US subtitle) by Neil Irwin
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier
The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund by Anita Raghavan
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy by Iain Martin

The winner will be named Nov. 18 at an awards dinner in London.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.