American Business History

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Walter A. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society....

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    • Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
    • By: Jon Gertner
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009 ratings
    • In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the 1980s....

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    • A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
    • By: Bhu Srinivasan
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick, Bhu Srinivasan
    • Length: 21 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 633 ratings
    • Americana takes us on a 400-year journey of the spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things....

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    • Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
    • By: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

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    • How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
    • By: Casey Michel
    • Narrated by: Joe Dwyer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known....

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    • An American History from Barnum to Madoff
    • By: Edward J. Balleisen
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....

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    • Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
    • By: Michael D'Antonio
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day....

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    • How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 714 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II....

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    • Executive Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision
    • By: H.W. Crocker
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Robert E. Lee scholar H. W. Crocker III is an esteemed Civil War historian....

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    • The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
    • By: Julia Flynn Siler
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 430 ratings
    • Set in California's lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal....

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    • The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    • By: Shane White
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time....

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    • An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,314 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How 400 Years of Risk-Takers, Innovators, and Business Visionaries Built the U.S.A.
    • By: Willie Robertson, William Doyle
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • In American Entrepreneur, Duck Commander CEO and star of the blockbuster Duck Dynasty series Willie tells the captivating true tale of the visionaries and doers who have embodied the American Dream....

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • By: T.J. Stiles
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 28 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,442 ratings
    • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....

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    • Abraham Lincoln's Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues
    • By: Donald T. Phillips
    • Narrated by: Donald T. Phillips
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • The author of the classic best seller Lincoln on Leadership answers the question: How would President Lincoln handle the pressing crises of our modern world? Find out....

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    • A Whopper of a Story on Life and Leadership
    • By: Jim McLamore
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • A rags-to-$9-billion-riches story. A crash course in Burger King history and fast food in America, The Burger King is McLamore's candid and conversational memoir. Written before his death in 1996, he talks of his life, the birth of the Whopper, and the rise of Burger King....

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    • The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
    • By: Rana Foroohar
    • Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 496 ratings
    • Through colorful stories of both “Takers”, those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers”, businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward....

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    • The First American Industrial Revolution
    • By: Charles R. Morris
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • In the 30 years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history....

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

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