I don't care how much controversy this reply will make; this is actually a great book. It contains much about society, nation, economy, and the story of the man who invented the first currency backed by physical labor and intellectual work, i.e., a currency that is backed by itself.

You can also read "On the Genealogy of Morals" by Nietzsche, it's a very good book that predict so much of our modern time.
If you don't go into politics and scold the book for Nazism, then the book is excellent. Becoming a human being from scratch in terrible conditions. I read it at one time, I read a third.