Amazon ' s Best Investment Book Reviews: Have You Been Brainwashed? Most popular investment books are hackneyed for the already rich and outstanding, by an industry that has become just too good at the craft of selling books. Rarely will a publisher take a chance with the work of an unknown form. Certainly, it ' s a no brainer to sell a Jim Cramer, Peter Lynch, Robert Kiyosaki, or Maria Bartiromo pull while a uniquely new approach to solving the puzzles of Wall Street, presented by an unknown writer or commentator, requires some considerable financial risk. Big publishers want to sell already big names; discovering neoteric ones is not in their wheelhouse. Are they answerable for the problems in the economic markets? Of course not, but they do have a obstinate, if indirect, impact. By constantly publishing the same Wall Street friendly scoop, they contribute to the brainwashing. Without a wider distribution of new ideas based on senile wisdom, Wall Street as simple rema...