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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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    • 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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    • 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 157 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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    • 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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    • Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
    • By: Richard Snow
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park that became at once the greatest piece of urban design in the United States and the world's most prosperous tourist attraction, as told like never before....

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    • The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
    • By: Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,447 ratings
    • When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly 60 years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history....

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    • The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You
    • By: Capricia Penavic Marshall
    • Narrated by: Capricia Penavic Marshall, Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • President Obama's former United States chief of protocol looks at why etiquette and diplomacy matter - from the international stage to everyday life....

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    • The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    • By: Eric Schlosser
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,035 ratings
    • To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has...

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    • How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
    • By: Charles R. Morris
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 324 ratings
    • The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation....

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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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    • ExxonMobil and American Power
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 760 ratings
    • Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 634 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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    • A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom
    • By: Adam Chandler
    • Narrated by: Adam Chandler
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Most any honest person can own up to harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams, Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century....

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    • Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
    • By: A'Lelia Bundles
    • Narrated by: A'Lelia Bundles
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • The daughter of slaves, Madam C.J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at 14, and widowed at 20. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week....

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    • The Fall of RJR Nabisco
    • By: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
    • Narrated by: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,393 ratings
    • Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time, the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history....

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    • On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs
    • By: Wes Davis
    • Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs....

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    • The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture
    • By: Dan Gearino
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The early 1970s saw the birth of the modern comic book shop. Its rise was due in large part to a dynamic entrepreneur, Phil Seuling....

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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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    • A Business History of the United States
    • By: Benjamin C. Waterhouse
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A new, gripping history of America - told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present....

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