August 20, 2025
By Bjarke Smith-Meyer, Kathryn Carlson, and Gregorio Sorgi
IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER: Although many are already back at the office, officially summer will last until 21 September. So MFS has some more book read suggestions for those still enjoying a late break…
War tales/1: Michael Pedroni, Highland Global Advisors CEO and a longtime Treasury official, recommends Norman Lewis’ memoir “Naples ’44.” A British intelligence officer’s journal describing both a wrenching level of destitution after the fall of Southern Italy in WW2 and also an uplifting telling of the people he met, Pedroni said. “As a bonus, he witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius— his description is fascinating,” he added…