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  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Bernie Madoff

BiographiesFrauds and collapses

Ran the largest known Ponzi scheme, about $65 billion, through his firm's asset-management arm; once chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Died in 2021.

Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities

10 biographies about them

Biographies 10Profiles 3

One definitive account plus a whistleblower memoir and two interview-based books.

The Wizard of LiesThe Wizard of Lies
T1 The Wizard of Lies
Diana B. Henriques · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Bernie Madoff's fraud began, how it ran for decades, and how it collapsed.

Too Good to Be TrueToo Good to Be True
T2 Too Good to Be True
Erin Arvedlund · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

By the reporter who publicly questioned the returns in 2001.

No One Would ListenNo One Would Listen
T2 No One Would Listen
Harry Markopolos · 2010
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A nine-year effort to convince the SEC that Bernard Madoff was a fraud.

Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie MadoffBetrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff
T3 Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff
Andrew Kirtzman · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fast first draft, published months after the arrest.

Truth and ConsequencesTruth and Consequences
T3 Truth and Consequences
Laurie Sandell · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Family cooperation; Ruth and Andrew Madoff on the record.

The End of NormalThe End of Normal
T3 The End of Normal
Stephanie Madoff Mack · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider memoir by Mark Madoff's widow; the collapse from inside the family.

Madoff TalksMadoff Talks
T3 Madoff Talks
Jim Campbell · 2021
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Built on prison correspondence and interviews.

Madoff: The Final Word
T3 Madoff: The Final Word
Richard Behar · 2024
Open LibraryGoodreads
Madoff with the MoneyMadoff with the Money
T4 Madoff with the Money
Jerry Oppenheimer · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

A portrait of Bernie Madoff the man, and how he ran his fraud.

The Madoff Chronicles: Inside the Secret WorThe Madoff Chronicles: Inside the Secret World of Bernie and Ruth
T4 The Madoff Chronicles: Inside the Secret World of Bernie and Ruth
Brian Ross · 2009
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