American Corporate History
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The Secret History of the American Empire
- Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Corporate Corruption
- By: John Perkins
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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In The Secret History of the American Empire, Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world and, drawing on interviews with other hit men, jackals, reporters, and activists, examines the current geopolitical crisis. Instability is the norm; it's clear that the world we've created is dangerous and no longer sustainable. How did we get here? Who's responsible? What good have we done and at what cost? And what can we do to change things for the next generations?
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Excellent - buy it now!
- By Harry on 08-17-07
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The Secret History of the American Empire
- Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Corporate Corruption
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Series: John Perkins Economic Hitman Series
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-22-07
- Language: English
- Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world and, drawing on interviews with other hit men, jackals, reporters, and activists, examines the current geopolitical crisis....
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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century
- The History of American Business Enterprise
- By: Richard N. Langlois
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 31 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant narrative: that administrative coordination by trained professional managers is essential to the efficient running of organizations both public and private. And yet if managerialism was the apotheosis of administrative efficiency, why did both its practice and the accompanying narrative lie in ruins by the end of the century?
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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century
- The History of American Business Enterprise
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 31 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
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Richard Langlois offers a comprehensive and nuanced reframing and reassessment of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era.
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American Pain
- How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
- By: John Temple
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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American Pain chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill and how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis. The narrative, which swings back and forth between Florida and Kentucky, is populated by a diverse cast of characters.
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Now I understand the problem
- By Amazon Customer in Sanford NC on 07-07-16
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American Pain
- How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 11-03-15
- Language: English
- American Pain chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill and how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis....
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American Default
- The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold
- By: Sebastian Edwards
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the US dollar in relation to gold, effectively annulling all debt contracts. American Default is the story of this forgotten chapter in America's history.
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Superb
- By Jean on 12-08-18
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American Default
- The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-18-18
- Language: English
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The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the US dollar in relation to gold....
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American Kleptocracy
- 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
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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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Brilliant, timely, a cautionary tale
- By Victoria Eriksson on 11-24-21
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American Kleptocracy
- How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
- Narrated by: Joe Dwyer
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-23-21
- Language: English
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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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The Corporation
- An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
- By: T. J. English
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
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By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob. Known on both sides of the law as "the Corporation", the Cuban mob's power stemmed from a criminal culture embedded in south Florida's exile community - those who had been chased from the island by Castro's revolution and planned to overthrow the Marxist dictator and reclaim their nation.
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uncle joey approved
- By Anonymous User on 04-14-18
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The Corporation
- An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-20-18
- Language: English
- By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob....
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We the Corporations
- How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
- By: Adam Winkler
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations - like minorities and women - have had a civil rights movement of their own and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a 200-year battle....
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Many books in one, supporting vast insight
- By Philo on 04-03-18
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We the Corporations
- How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 02-27-18
- Language: English
- In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital....
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Mellon
- An American Life
- By: David Cannadine
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 35 hrs and 57 mins
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A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each. Following a boyhood in 19th-century Pittsburgh, during which he learned from his Scotch-Irish immigrant father the lessons of self-sufficiency and wealth accumulation, Andrew Mellon overcame painful shyness to become one of America's greatest financiers.
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Fascinating and Detailed Biography
- By Nostromo on 04-17-07
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Mellon
- An American Life
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 35 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-03-06
- Language: English
- A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon....
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Soldiers of Reason
- The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
- By: Alex Abella
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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The first-ever popular history of the RAND Corporation, written with full access to its archives, Soldiers of Reason is a page-turning chronicle of the rise of the secretive think tank that has been the driving force behind American government for 60 years
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The Alliance of Geniuses and Generals
- By Doug on 04-10-11
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Soldiers of Reason
- The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-02-10
- Language: English
- With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of Americas last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present....
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The Sack of Detroit
- General Motors and the End of American Enterprise
- By: Kenneth Whyte
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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In the 1950s, America enjoyed massive growth and affluence, and no companies contributed more to its success than automakers. They were the biggest and best businesses in the world, their leadership revered, their methods imitated, and their brands synonymous with the nation's aspirations. But by the end of the 1960s, Detroit's profits had evaporated and its famed executives had become symbols of greed, arrogance, and incompetence.
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Disjointed & Pointless
- By Berry on 05-04-22
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The Sack of Detroit
- General Motors and the End of American Enterprise
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 06-01-21
- Language: English
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A provocative, revelatory history of the epic rise - and unnecessary fall - of the US automotive industry, uncovering the vivid story of innovation, politics, and business that led to a sudden, seismic shift in American priorities that is still felt today....
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Underwriters of the United States
- How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
- By: Hannah Farber
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.
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Underwriters of the United States
- How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-11-24
- Language: English
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Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.
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Circle of Greed
- The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees
- By: Patrick Dillon
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
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Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most famously—Enron. Now, the man who brought corporate moguls to their knees has fallen prey to the same corrupt impulses of his enemies, and is paying the price by serving time in federal prison.
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Too long not worth 2 credits
- By Jan on 05-11-10
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Circle of Greed
- The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 02-16-10
- Language: English
- Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon....
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Bait and Switch
- The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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The best-selling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the world of the white-collar unemployed.
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A terrible book - princess Barbara goes undercover
- By Peter on 11-07-05
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Bait and Switch
- The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-19-05
- Language: English
- The best-selling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor....
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The Vanishing American Corporation
- Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy
- By: Gerald F. Davis
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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It may be hard to believe in an era of Walmart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline. The number of American companies listed on the stock market dropped by half between 1996 and 2012. In recent years we've seen some of the most storied corporations go bankrupt (General Motors, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak) or disappear entirely (Bethlehem Steel, Lehman Brothers, Borders).
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Davis' Book is a Millennial Must Read
- By Nicholas Zinn on 04-26-16
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The Vanishing American Corporation
- Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-23-16
- Language: English
- It may be hard to believe in an era of Walmart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline....
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I Did It
- The Largest Woman-Run Ponzi Scheme in American History
- By: Gina Champion-Cain
- Narrated by: Neil Senturia, Barbara Bry
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in US history—$400 million. This real-life story includes a multitude of participants, banks, hedge funds, egomaniacs, and small-time crooks, all fueled by greed, stupidity, and a keen desire to look the other way. And even when they were looking in the right direction, all of these people and entities saw nothing.
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Interesting story
- By Richard Spitaleri Jr. on 01-13-23
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I Did It
- The Largest Woman-Run Ponzi Scheme in American History
- Narrated by: Neil Senturia, Barbara Bry
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-03-23
- Language: English
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I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in US history—$400 million....
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Country Capitalism
- How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
- By: Bart Elmore
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Our lives are built around businesses that connect far-flung rural places to urban centers and global destinations. This "country capitalism" that proved successful in the US South has made it possible to satisfy our demands at the click of a button, but each click comes with hidden environmental costs.
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Country Capitalism
- How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 05-30-23
- Language: English
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The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore....
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Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance
- By: Renaldo C. McKenzie
- Narrated by: Michael Scott
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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When we hear of Jamaica or the Caribbean, we think of beautiful islands of paradise with sun, sea and sand, reggae music, cannabis, and "irie" people like Usain Bolt - people who are living out their best dreams, desires, and lives. But this book analyzes this motif, given the historical and current economic and political situation in Jamaica, the Caribbean, and the "Global South". In an attempt to escape the adverse realities of poverty, inequality, and injustice, the people of the Global South find themselves in north metropolises with very little agency.
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Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance
- Narrated by: Michael Scott
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-16-21
- Language: English
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When we hear of Jamaica or the Caribbean, we think of beautiful islands of paradise with sun, sea and sand, reggae music, cannabis, and "irie" people like Usain Bolt- people who are living out their best dreams, desires, and lives. But this book analyzes this motif....
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Existing While BLACK in Corporate America
- By: Rudy Jones
- Narrated by: Will Norris
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
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After the Reconstruction era, Black people were stuck working for former slave owners on farms and plantations throughout the United States. Although they were technically no longer slaves, they endured harsh and unfair treatment. During the early 20th century, we saw the fruits of our labor come to fruition when Black businesses opened in parts of the country. Black people understood that because of our history and Jim Crow, we could not just work for anyone and expect a fair shake. We had to rely on our resiliency and fighting spirit to persevere.
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Existing While BLACK in Corporate America
- Narrated by: Will Norris
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-06-23
- Language: English
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In this audiobook, we examine our existence in corporate America. Some of our experiences will be discussed in this book, as well as how we should maneuver going forward....
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