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    • 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....

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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 1,062 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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    • 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 883 ratings
    • The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian....

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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
    • 4.5 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....

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    • 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 1,683 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....

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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 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....

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    • 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 8 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....

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    • 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 154 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....

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    • 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 9,169 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....

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    • How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
    • By: Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 554 ratings
    • This is a sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and 25 years of drama remade an ancient institution into a 21st-century entertainment empire....

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    • 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....

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    • 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....

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    • 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 87 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....

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    • Hidden Histories, Inspirational Stories, and Extraordinary Business Achievements
    • By: Steven S. Rogers
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Successful Black Entrepreneurs is an insightful collection of Harvard Business School case studies about Black entrepreneurs succeeding in a variety of industries and through different routes, including start-ups, franchising, and acquisitions....

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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 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....

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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 3,399 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 Rise of Henry Ford and the Most Important Car Ever Made
    • By: Richard Snow
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 737 ratings
    • I Invented the Modern Age reclaims from history Henry Ford, the remarkable man who, indeed, invented the modern world as we know it....

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    • 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 123 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....

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    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42,451 ratings
    • The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....

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    • By: George S. Clason
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26,761 ratings
    • George S. Clason uses parables set in ancient Babylon to guide listeners towards financial success in this business classic.

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