American Finance

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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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    • The Making of an American Capitalist
    • By: Roger Lowenstein
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,680 ratings
    • Journalist Roger Lowenstein draws on three years of unprecedented access to Buffett's family, friends, and colleagues to provide the first definitive inside account....

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    • The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
    • By: Robert J. Gordon
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 30 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 518 ratings
    • In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. This book provides an in-depth account of this era....

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    • The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
    • By: Benjamin Lorr
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Lorr
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,774 ratings
    • In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store....

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    • The Impossible Country
    • By: Daniel Tudor
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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    • How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries
    • By: James Ledbetter
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Gold has influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an irrational influence on the national psyche for centuries....

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    • A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
    • By: Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 30 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light....

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    • The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 762 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality....

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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

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    • How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
    • By: Michael Perino
    • Narrated by: George K. Wilson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash....

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    • Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,066 ratings
    • Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....

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    • The Epic History of American Economic Power
    • By: John Steele Gordon
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States....

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    • The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy....

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    • How to Finance the Next American Century
    • By: Richard Duncan
    • Narrated by: Chris Reilly
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century, economist and best-selling author Richard Duncan lays out a farsighted strategy to maximize the United States' unmatched financial and technological potential....

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    • The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon
    • By: Julie MacIntosh
    • Narrated by: Joyce Bean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands after barely a whimper of a fight? Find out....

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    • America's Invisible Crisis
    • By: Nicholas Eberstadt
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • Political economist Nicholas Eberstadt shows that while "unemployment" has gone down, America's work rate is also lower today than a generation ago....

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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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