Open Road: 9207 books
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: “A historical overview of the auto industry in the United States and Japan [and] the gradual decline of U.S. manufacturing” (Library Journal).
After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the...
by Julius Fast
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A revised and updated edition of the New York Times–bestselling classic on understanding body language from the author of Subtext.
Body Language helps you to understand the unconscious body movements and postures that provide intimate keys to what a person is really thinking and the secrets...
The Taking of Getty Oil
Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times–bestselling author of Private Empire.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll is renowned for “his ability to take complicated, significant business stories and turn them...
Once in Golconda
A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920–1938
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures comes the chronicle of the stock market crash of 1929 and its aftermath
Legend had it that anyone who passed through Golconda, a city in southern India, attained tremendous wealth. But Golconda, now in ruins, ran out of riches,...
The Go-Go Years
The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A humorous and keen look at the roller-coaster boom and bust of the 1960s and 1970s by the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures
John Brooks blends humor and astute analysis in this tale of the staggering “go-go” growth of the 1960s stock market and the ensuing crashes...
Inside Job
The Looting of America's Savings and Loans
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
New York Times Bestseller: A history of the S&L scandal that caused a financial disaster for American taxpayers: “Hard to put down” (Library Journal).
For most of the 20th century, savings and loans were an invaluable thread of the American economy. But in the 1970s, Congress passed...
Only Yesterday
An Informal History of the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
A history of roaring prosperity—and economic cataclysm: “The one account of America in the 1920s against which all others must be measured” (The Washington Post).
Beginning November 11, 1918, when President Woodrow Wilson declared the end of World War I in a letter to the American public,...
Business Adventures
Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal
What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf...
by Baltasar Gracián
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Life guidance from a famed Renaissance man.
This influential work of philosophy by one of the great thinkers of the Renaissance era advises people of all walks of life how to approach political, professional, and personal situations in a dog-eat-dog world. Comprised of three hundred pithy aphorisms,...
TrumpNation
The Art of Being the Donald
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The extensively researched biography that goes beyond the hype to “separate Trump the reality from Trump the reality show” (USA Today).
Now with a new introduction by the author, this entertaining look inside the world of Donald Trump is chock full of rip-roaring anecdotes, jaw-dropping...
by Robert Fitch
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter Kwong
How did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can...
Lombard Street
A Description of the Money Market
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Financial observer and journalist Walter Bagehot sheds light on the world of banking in his influential tract
Written in response to a nineteenth-century banking crisis in England, Walter Bagehot’s influential treatise was one of the first to clearly explain complex financial systems like...
The Brass Check
A Study of American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A muckraking exposé of corruption in American journalism from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Jungle
Upton Sinclair dedicated his life to documenting the destructive force of unbridled capitalism. In this influential study, he takes on the effect of money and power on mass media,...
The Deal of the Century
The Breakup of AT&T
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
**A New York Times–bestselling author’s “superbly reported” account of the dismantling of the world’s largest corporation (The Washington Post).
Written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ghost Wars and Private Empire, The Deal of the Century chronicles the decade-long...