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  • Bananas

    How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

    by Peter Chapman ...
    A lively and insightful cultural history of the coveted yellow fruit, as well as a gripping narrative about the infamous rise and fall of the United Fruit Company.In this compelling history of the United Fruit Company, Financial Times writer Peter Chapman weaves a dramatic tale of big business, deceit, and violence, exploring the origins of arguably one of the most controversial global ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Money Men

    A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

    by Dan McCrum ...
    'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financial crime books' Bradley Hope, author of The Billion Dollar Whale'A rip-roaring ride into the underworld of the global economy' Tom Burgis, author of Kleptopia***'*Required reading' The Economist'A cross between the Enron scandal and Rosemary's Baby' John Lanchester, London Review of Books**<... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation

    The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.Recent controversies around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and “woke capital” evoke an old idea: the Progressive Era vision of a socially responsible corporation. By midcentury, the notion that big business should benefit society was a consensus view. But as Kyle Edward Williams’s ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

    by Adam Winkler ...
    National Book Award for Nonfiction FinalistNational Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction FinalistA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA PBS “Now Read This” Book Club SelectionNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the Boston GlobeA landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Hidden History of Monopolies

    How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream

    by Thom Hartmann ...
    Series Book 4 - The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    “This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.”—from the foreword by Ralph NaderAmerican monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same as cancer does in a body, and, like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economic. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cult of Creativity

    A Surprisingly Recent History

    A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist.Creativity is one of American society’s signature values, but the idea that there is such a thing as “creativity”—and that it can be cultivated—is surprisingly recent, entering our everyday speech in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC

    The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation

    From an insider, the forty-year saga of the rise and fall of Digital Equipment Corporation, one of the pioneering companies of the computer age.Digital Equipment Corporation created the minicomputer, networking, the concept of distributed computing, speech recognition, and other major innovations. It was the number-two computer maker behind IBM. Yet it ultimately failed as a business and was sold ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Business Adventures

    Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

    by John Brooks ...
    “Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street JournalWhat 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 Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Since Yesterday

    The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

    A “wonderfully written account of America in the ’30s,” the follow-up to Only Yesterday examines Black Tuesday through the end of the Depression (The New York Times).Wall Street Journal BestsellerOpening on September 3, 1929, in the days before the stock market crash, this information-packed volume takes us through one of America’s darkest times all the way to the light at the end of the tunnel ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Only Yesterday

    An Informal History of the 1920s

    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, and continuing through his defeat, Prohibition, the Big Red Scare, the rise of women’s hemlines, and the stock ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Du Pont Dynasty

    Behind the Nylon Curtain

    by Gerard Colby ...
    Series series Forbidden Bookshelf
    Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the authorTheir name is everywhere. America’s wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts, from their mansions in northern Delaware’s “Chateau Country,” have long been leaders in the relentless drive to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of Morgan

    An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

    by Ron Chernow ...
    The National Book Award–winning history of American finance by the renowned biographer and author of Hamilton: “A tour de force” (New York Times Book Review).The House of Morgan is a panoramic story of four generations in the powerful Morgan family and their secretive firms that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan’s empire from its obscure beginnings ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reckoning

    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 Japanese auto industry in the decades after World War II. David Halberstam, with his signature precision and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Secret History of Brands

    The Dark and Twisted Beginnings of the Brand Names We Know and Love

    by Matt MacNabb ...
    The true—and often shocking—stories behind some of the biggest names in business.We live our lives immersed in name brand products. What most of us don’t know is that the origins of many of the most well-known and beloved brands in the world are shrouded in controversy, drug use, and sometimes even blatant racism.A Secret History of Brands cuts through the rumors and urban legends and paints a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploding the Phone

    The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell

    by Phil Lapsley ...
    “A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewBefore smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computers, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary “harmonic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

    by Mike Isaac ...
    **Now a SHOWTIME® original series starring Emmy winners Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler and Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman. Now streaming – Only on SHOWTIME.Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Fortune, Bloomberg, Sunday TimesA New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice“If you want to understand modern-day Silicon Valley, you need to read this book.” —John Carreyrou, New York ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

    **WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYWinner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing]The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America.**Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain’s Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Secret Formula

    The Inside Story of How Coca-Cola Became the Best-Known Brand in the World

    A "highly entertaining history [of] global hustling, cola wars and the marketing savvy that carved a niche for Coke in the American social psyche” (Publishers Weekly).Secret Formula follows the colorful characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth $80 billion. Award-winning reporter Frederick Allen’s engaging account begins with Asa Candler, a nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Curse of Bigness

    Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

    by Tim Wu ...
    The political mood is turning against big tech, and the backlash is bipartisan. So too is the populist outrage against economic inequality and political influence. Everyone from unionists to farmers, to Google users angry about private data, Facebook users angry about fake news, to broadband customers sick of having no choice but Time Warner Cable, will want to understand the case for controlling ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cutter Incident

    How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

    by Paul A. Offit ...
    A history and analysis of the tragic 1955 American pharmaceutical disaster involving one company’s polio vaccine.Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BlackBerry: The Inside Story Of Research In Motion

    Chances are…you are looking at yours right now. They are--quite literally--everywhere. US President Barack Obama admits he cannot live without it. Oprah Winfrey, reigning queen of daytime TV, declared on air that the BlackBerry is one of her "favorite things." BusinessWeek put the case for owning one bluntly in an article entitled simply: "No BlackBerry. No Life." From its relatively modest debut ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Inside Job

    The Looting of America's Savings and Loans

    Series series Forbidden Bookshelf
    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 sweeping financial deregulation at the insistence of industry insiders that allowed these once quaint and useful ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Taking of Getty Oil

    Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History

    by Steve Coll ...
    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 into quick-reading engaging narratives” (Chicago Tribune). Coll is at the height of his talents in this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Andrew Carnegie: Prince Of Steel And Libraries

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Andrew Carnegie, one of the wealthiest American tycoons of the Gilded Age, the late 19th century when America's moguls amassed great fortunes and lived extravagant lifestyles. Countless books and articles refer to Carnegie as a "robber baron." A few hail him as one of America's greatest industrialists and philanthropists, a man who gave away more than 300 million before his ... Read more

    $1.99 USD