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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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    • 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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    • 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: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 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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    • ExxonMobil and American Power
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-12
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football's Soul
    • By: Chris Blackhurst
    • Narrated by: Chris Blackhurst
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In The World’s Biggest Cash Machine, award-winning journalist Chris Blackhurst weaves together iconic personalities, sporting drama, and boardroom deals to deliver a must-read narrative on the the world's most influential football club....

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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: 16-12-14
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Fall of RJR Nabisco
    • By: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
    • Narrated by: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 177 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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    • 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: 23-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 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 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: 05-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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 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: 13-02-18
    • Language: English
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    • 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 Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation
    • By: Kyle Edward Williams
    • Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.

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    • The Inside Story of How Coca-Cola Became the Best-Known Brand in the World
    • By: Frederick Allen
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 22 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Secret Formula follows the characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth $80 billion. Award-winning reporter Frederick Allen's account begins with Asa Candler, a nineteenth-century pharmacist in Atlanta who secured the rights to the original Coca-Cola formula.

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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: 25-06-19
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Greatest Showmen. The Biography Collection
    • By: The History Hour
    • Narrated by: Jerry Beebe
    • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • These two men are brilliant showmen. Throughout his life, Houdini became the most celebrated magician and escape artist of all time. Phineas Taylor Barnum influenced virtually every aspect of American life, and it cannot be underestimated....

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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: 11-04-17
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • An American History from Barnum to Madoff
    • By: Edward J. Balleisen
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....

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    • How Each President Sold the American Idea
    • By: Jason Voiovich
    • Narrated by: Jason Voiovich
    • Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-21
    • Language: English
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    • Born from the wildly popular weekly blog in 2020, Marketer in Chief repackages presidential history in a way that’s more natural for American consumers - the average person might take a history course in high school or college, but they make a purchase every single day....

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