American Business History

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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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    • 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
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 635 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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    • 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 1,034 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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    • The Rise of Political Consulting and the Transformation of American Democracy
    • By: Adam Sheingate
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Adam Sheingate traces the history of political consultants from its origins in the publicity experts and pollsters of the 1920s and 1930s....

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    • The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
    • By: Rana Foroohar
    • Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 497 ratings
    • Through colorful stories of both “Takers”, those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers”, businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward....

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    • Learning to Lead
    • By: Jim Mattis, Bing West
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,735 ratings
    • Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis’ storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East....

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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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    • J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
    • By: Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil....

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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 1,452 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 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 1,452 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....

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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 730 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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    • Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
    • By: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

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    • A Whopper of a Story on Life and Leadership
    • By: Jim McLamore
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • A rags-to-$9-billion-riches story. A crash course in Burger King history and fast food in America, The Burger King is McLamore's candid and conversational memoir. Written before his death in 1996, he talks of his life, the birth of the Whopper, and the rise of Burger King....

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    • The History of American Business Enterprise
    • By: Richard N. Langlois
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 31 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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 3,356 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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    • 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 105 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 Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
    • By: Julia Flynn Siler
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • Set in California's lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal....

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

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