Lloyd Blankfein Audiobooks

Streetwise: a long business memoir, read by its own author

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

27 listener ratings

Who is Lloyd Blankfein?

Streetwise is a word with a particular edge on it. It suggests knowledge picked up in the open rather than the classroom, and choosing it for a recording filed under both memoir and business sets the terms straight away: an account of how things actually worked, told by somebody who was in the room.

Lloyd Blankfein comes to our catalogue with a listen running close to fourteen hours, which is long for a memoir and longer still for a business title. Length of that order usually indicates a life told at full stretch rather than a set of lessons packaged for the airport bookshop, with space for the detours and the awkward stretches that a shorter treatment would quietly smooth away.

Lloyd Blankfein in audiobooks

The narration is credited to the author, which for memoir is very often the right decision. Nobody else places the emphasis exactly where the writer intended, and fourteen hours in a familiar voice is the difference between reading a life and hearing it recounted.

Listener verdicts are enthusiastic but thin on the ground so far, so treat the score as an early reading rather than a settled one. Anyone who enjoys memoirs from inside the world of business, or business writing that comes with a whole life attached, will find this substantial rather than brisk. The listing below has the particulars.