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: 10-11-20
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
    • By: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 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: 14-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 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 Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
    • By: Ethan Mordden
    • Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • As author Ethan Mordden looks back at Chicago's various moving parts, we learn how the American theater serves as a kind of alternative news medium, a town crier warning the public about the racy, devious interior contradictions of American 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: 17-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • Abraham Lincoln's Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues
    • By: Donald T. Phillips
    • Narrated by: Donald T. Phillips
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-17
    • Language: English
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    • The author of the classic best seller Lincoln on Leadership answers the question: How would President Lincoln handle the pressing crises of our modern world? Find out....

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    • The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution
    • By: Tom Acitelli, Tony Magee - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Discover the underdog story of how America came to dominate beer stylistically in the second edition of Tom Acitelli's The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution, the most comprehensive history yet of American craft beer....

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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: 23-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 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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    • The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
    • By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
    • Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune....

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    • Learning to Lead
    • By: Jim Mattis, Bing West
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 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 Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 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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    • How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport
    • By: Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson
    • Narrated by: Rich Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • The never-before-told inside story of how the Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular entertainment business on the planet....

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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: 17-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 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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    • How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
    • By: Tom Wheeler
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-20
    • Language: English
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    • The Civil War was the first "modern war." Because of the rapid changes in American society, Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided United States during a period of technological and social revolution....

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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: 21-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • Visionaries of American Theater
    • By: Iris Dorbian
    • Narrated by: Michella Moss
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Broadway’s most esteemed visionaries tell all - how they got started in the business, how they chose projects, how they raise money....

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    • ExxonMobil and American Power
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 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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    • How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
    • By: John Eisenberg
    • Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America....

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