Business History

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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 1,059 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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Golden Arches in Black America
    • By: Marcia Chatelain
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
    • By: Christopher Knowlton
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • The Open Range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals the truth of how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A History of Corporations
    • By: William Magnuson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley....

    Regular price: $28.79

    • Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Alexander Adams
    • Length: 28 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and best-selling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success....

    Regular price: $29.25

    • The Bankers Who Broke the World
    • By: Liaquat Ahamed
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,679 ratings
    • Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have....

    Regular price: $20.63

    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 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....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • 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 119 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 158 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....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • 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 3,389 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....

    Regular price: $25.76

    • The Dark and Twisted Beginnings of the Brand Names We Know and Love
    • By: Matt MacNabb
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A Secret History of Brands cuts through the rumors and urban legends and paints a picture of the true dark history of famous brands, like Coca-Cola, Hugo Boss, Adidas, Ford, Bayer, Chanel, and BMW among others....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    • By: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9,149 ratings
    • The prize-winning and best-selling author of Say Nothing presents a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin....

    Regular price: $24.75

    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 1,465 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....

    Regular price: $29.25

    • The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 721 ratings
    • Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early 20th century....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
    • By: William C. Rempel
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 880 ratings
    • The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian....

    Regular price: $26.99

    • The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
    • By: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 750 ratings
    • Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how the biggest private company in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America....

    Regular price: $26.24

    • 1848-1875
    • By: Eric Hobsbawm
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A History of Latinos in America
    • By: Juan Gonzalez
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture - from food to entertainment to literature - is greater than ever....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
    • By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
    • Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,970 ratings
    • New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.

    Regular price: $24.29