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Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise a...

Reeves Wiedeman

A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This "vivid" inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history (Ken Aulett...

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Published: Aug 2021

The Partnership: The Making of Goldma...

Charles D. Ellis

With unparalleled access to the firm's enigmatic leadership, The Partnership chronicles the brilliant men who built one of the world's largest investment banks.

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Published: Dec 2008

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Foo...

Bradley Hope

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (...

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Published: Oct 2019

Disney War

James B. Stewart

DisneyWar is the breathtaking, dramatic inside story of what drove America's best-known entertainment company to civil war, told by one of our most acclaimed writers and reporters.

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Published: Mar 2006

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of R...

Bryan Burrough

'Barbarians at the Gate' is the classic account of the defining takeover in Wall Street merger history. The authors' gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street, in fall of 1988, gives a richly textured social history of w...

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Published: Jun 2003

House of Cards: Promotional: A Tale o...

William D. Cohan

Written with the novelistic verve and insider knowledge that made The Last Tycoons a bestseller and a prize winner, House of Cards is a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the con...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2010

All the Money in the World: How the F...

Peter W. Bernstein

In All the Money in the World, Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan--in conjunction with Forbes magazine--take an unprecedented and fascinating look at the lives, culture, and financial habits of the unbelievably rich. Examine these ...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2007

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and ...

William D. Cohan

Written with the novelistic verve and insider knowledge that made The Last Tycoons a bestseller and a prize winner, House of Cards is a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the con...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2009

Seven Secrets of the Corporate Mystic...

Gay Hendricks

According to Dr. Gay Hendricks, today you are just as likely to find a mystic in a corporate boardroom as in a monastery. Now this respected psychologist and bestselling author shares the secrets of these grounded visionaries on Seven...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2002

iCon Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second ...

Jeffrey S. Young

This is a 3 Audio CD Set. Lightning never strikes twice, but Steve Jobs has, transforming modern culture first with the Macintosh and more recently the Pod. He has dazzled and delighted audiences with his Pixar movies. And he had be-d...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

The House of Morgan: An American Bank...

Ron Chernow

*Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as ''brilliantly researched and wr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Beh...

Michael Blanding

The Coke Machine takes listeners deep inside the Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number-one brand in the world and just how far they'll go to stay there.

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2010

One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of...

Richard L. Brandt

An insightful look at how Amazon really works and how its founder and CEO makes it happen. Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost be s...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2011

King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise,...

David Carey

The financial establishment-banks and investment bankers, such as Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Lehman, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley-were the cowboys, recklessly assuming risks, leveraging up to astronomical levels...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2010

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and ...

William D. Cohan

Written with the novelistic verve and insider knowledge that made The Last Tycoons a bestseller and a prize winner, House of Cards is a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the con...

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Published: Jan 2010

American Icon: Alan Mulally and the F...

Bryce G. Hoffman

At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the taxpa...

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Published: Jun 2012

American Icon: Alan Mulally and the F...

Bryce G. Hoffman

At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the taxpa...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2012

Temp: The Real Story of What Happened...

Louis Hyman

Winner of the William G. Bowen Prize Named a "Triumph" of 2018 by New York Times Book CriticsShortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book AwardThe untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy"--ho...

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Published: Aug 2019

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Michael Lewis

#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword"Guaranteed to make blood boil." —Janet Maslin, New York TimesIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S....

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Published: Mar 2015

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to ...

Roger Lowenstein

A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedro...

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Published: Oct 2016

Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battl...

Bob Lutz

"One of the most acute books about management and how com­panies work in practice that I have read in a long time. If anyone wants to know exactly how the U.S. auto industry got into trou­ble, here is your guide."-John Gap...

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Published: Apr 2013

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and ...

Sebastian Mallaby

"Splendid...the definitive history of the hedge fund, a compelling narrative full of larger-than-life characters and dramatic tales." -- The Washington Post Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become t...

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Published: May 2011

The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Fer...

Michael Perino

In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in American history had so many financial titans been called to account befo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2010

The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Fer...

Michael Perino

n The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in American history had so many financial titans been called to account befor...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2010

Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Sean Howe

"Sean Howe's history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world…That it's all true is just frosting on the cake."—Jo...

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Published: Oct 2013

Built to Last: Successful Habits of V...

James C. Collins

Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to ...

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Published: Jul 2004

The Loudest Voice in the Room: How th...

Gabriel Sherman

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory journey inside the world of Roger Ailes—the founder of Fox News—detailing his rise in TV and political consulting, his brash business style, his conservative agenda, and his sometimes co...

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Published: Jan 2017

The Peter Principle: Why Things Alway...

Laurence J. Peter

"The Peter Principle has cosmic implications."—New York TimesBack in 1969, Lawrence J. Peter created a cultural phenomenon  with his brilliant, outrageous, hilarious, and all-too-true treatise on business and life, The Pe...

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Published: Nov 2011

Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Mon...

Nick Bilton

A New York Times bestseller Ev told Jack he had to "chill out" with the deluge of media he was doing. "It's bad for the company," Ev said. "It's sending the wrong message." Biz sat between them, wat...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass De...

Zac Bissonnette

In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. With no advertising or big-box distribution, creator Ty Warner - an eccentric college dropout - become a billionaire in just three years. And it was all thanks to co...

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Published: Mar 2016
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