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From soda jerk to billionaire restaurateur, Ray Kroc exemplified American entrepreneurship at its best. In a fascinating career of building McDonald's into the world's biggest fast service restaurant chain, Kroc adhered to certain virtues he considered indispensable for success - passion, persistence,...

Alfred P. Sloan Jr. was an undisputed titan of the auto industry. He outsmarted legendary carmaker Henry Ford, essentially invented marketing as we know it today, and pioneered the very concept of corporate management. He personified the twentieth-century Organization Man, whose work was his life,...

Henry Ford was perfectly tuned to his times. He made sturdy, practical cars that everyone could afford and drive. His moving assembly line slashed the cost of production. His network of franchised dealers nurtured car ownership and promoted gas stations and better roads. But when his time passed,...

Pope John Paul II was a towering figure - a prime actor on the world political stage who brought his church through a troubled time with his strength, charisma, and sense of mission. Because of his leadership, the Catholic Church, though its rifts weren’t fully healed, grew in numbers and influence...

As the thirty-fourth president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower confronted the most critical issues of the last century - from McCarthyism and school desegregation in the South to the Cold War and the build-up of the military industrial complex. As a leader, he worked quietly behind the...

John F. Kennedy possessed every advantage: wealth, good looks, intelligence, charm, and wit. And by the time he was assassinated at the age of forty-six - leaving a stunned world to mourn his death - he had learned what it meant to lead a nation. Here, in this short-form book, is what you can learn from the life of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.

He was an unlikely president - dismissed by opponents as a mere movie actor, a conservative trying to undo the work of big-government liberals. But Ronald Reagan made it to the White House, taking office in a time of economic turmoil and uneasy relations with foreign powers. Despite these obstacles,...

There is no arguing J.P. Morgan's monumental influence. As both the guardian of America's financial sturdiness and a well-appointed exploiter of the system's regulatory shortcomings, his actions raised questions that still resonate: What does it mean for Wall Street to be out of control? How best can...

"High-stakes suspense . . . You won't be disappointed." - Steve Berry. "A fireball of awesome!" - Joshua Corin. The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico washes a cache of doomsday weapons onto a Mexican beach: bombs filled with VX nerve gas mixed with anthrax, invented...

Jam-packed with jokes, funny stories, and stand-up routines, this guide to America's funniest women covers more than seventy-five famous comediennes, including Carol Burnett, Ellen DeGeneres, Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Mary Tyler Moore, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, and others.

Six centuries ago, the Islamic world was the pinnacle of civilization. What was it really like? The answer is in the twelfth-century diaries of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler who spent thirty years journeying some 73,000 miles. Here, in this short-form book from acclaimed writer and bestselling author Jan Morris, in the little-known story of perhaps the greatest traveler of all time.

Rowan Jacobsen, winner of the James Beard Award, discovered the best chocolate he had ever eaten – a long-lost strain of wild cacao from the Bolivian rainforest. Heres the story of how he tracked it down, journeying by boat into the heart of Amazonia, enduring monstrous ticks, warlike ants, floods,...

He boasted his empire would last a thousand years; it collapsed within a decade. This was Adolf Hitler's Europe - the formidable fortress that cast its last shadow across half the world and which, indeed, seemed nearly ready to sustain itself for a millennium. But it was corroding from within before...

The vast lands and wealth of Siberia were claimed for Russia in the sixteenth century by a renegade soldier named Yermak Timofeyevich, an explorer whose accomplishments rival those of Columbus, Cook, and Magellan. Here, in this short-form book from award-winning author Timothy Severin, is his incredible and seldom-told story.