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Conspiracy
Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
**An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018!
A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic...
Hit Refresh
The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
“At the core, Hit Refresh, is about us humans and the unique quality we call empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world where the torrent of technology will disrupt the status quo like never before.” – Satya Nadella from Hit Refresh
“Satya has charted a course for making...
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense
The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1999
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar...
How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars
The Snapchat Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
"In the grand tradition of Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires (2009)... an engaging look into a fascinating subculture of millions." —Booklist
"Breezy...How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars ably if uncritically chronicles the short history of a young company catering to...
Blood Medicine
Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
“Blood Feud rivals A Civil Action for best non-fiction book of the past twenty years.” — John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of Damage
Procrit seemed like a biotech miracle, promising a golden age in medical care. Developed in the 1980s by Amgen and licensed to the pharmaceutical...
Quench Your Own Thirst
Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career.
In 1984, it looked like an...
by Michael Ovitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one.
As the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Michael Ovitz earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy, and fierce loyalty to his clients. He reinvented the role of the agent and helped shape the careers of...
Confessions of a Wall Street Insider
A Cautionary Tale of Rats, Feds, and Banksters
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Although he was a suburban husband and father, living a far different life than the Wolf of Wall Street,” Michael Kimelman had a good run as the cofounder of a hedge fund. He had left a cushy yet suffocating job at a law firm to try his hand at the high-risk life of a proprietary trader - and...
Money Talks, Bullsh*t Walks
Inside the Contrarian Mind of Billionaire Mogul Sam Zell
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
"The challenge is, how do we get somebody 126 years old to get it up?" This was Sam Zell's unique way of saying hello to a large gathering at the Los Angeles Times shortly after taking charge of Tribune Company. "I'm your Viagra, OK?"
Even for Sam Zell, one of the greatest...
In All His Glory
The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
“He is to American broadcasting as Carnegie was to steel, Ford to automobiles, Luce to publishing, and Ruth to baseball,” wrote The New York Times of Willian S. Paley—the man who built CBS, the “Tiffany Network.” Sally Bedell Smith’s In All His Glory takes a hard look at Paley and the...
by Alfred P Sloan Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This edition has no photos nor charts. A free GM_Charts_Supplement.pdf can be download from enetpress.com
“Deliberately to stop growing is to suffocate. . . . I put no ceiling on progress.”
~Alfred P Sloan, Jr.
Alfred P Sloan, Jr. began his career...
When Hollywood Had a King
The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
In When Hollywood Had a King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry— businessman, politician, tactician, and visionary Lew Wasserman.
The Music Corporation of America was founded...
The Bronfmans
The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The story of the Bronfman family is a fascinating and improbable saga. It is dominated by "Mr. Sam," the single greatest figure in the history of the liquor business, the man who made drinking whiskey respectable in the United States and who in the 1950s and 1960s built Seagram into the...