Biography & Autobiography - Business

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The Smartest Guys In The Room

Bethany McLean

Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the President's Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the dram...

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Published: Sep 2004

The Accidental Billionaires: The Foun...

Ben Mezrich

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires." —The New York TimesBest friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely n...

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Published: Sep 2010

The New Confessions of an Economic Hi...

John Perkins

Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages.New Revelations: Featu...

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Published: Feb 2016

Worth It: How a Million-Dollar Pay Cu...

Dan Price

Dan Price gained worldwide attention in 2015 when he announced that he was instituting a $70,000 minimum wage at his company, Gravity Payments, and would slash his $1 million salary in order to pay for it. While many praised the decis...

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Published: Apr 2020

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins

A former consultant to the U.S. government reveals the inner workings of the high-stakes economic game that encourages Third World economies to borrow money so that major corporations like Halliburton end up getting the contracts.

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Published: Jan 2006

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My ...

Ben R. Rich

An insider's story of Lockheed's Skunk Works, the supersecret facility that developed the U-2 American spy plane and other high-technology aircraft, follows the period of the author's career from 1975 to 1990. Reprint. NYT.

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Published: Feb 1996

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of...

Michael Gates Gill

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks. In his fift...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise an...

John Paul Rathbone

"Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely ...

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Published: Jul 2011

Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbuc...

Howard Schultz

Since 1987, Starbucks's star has been on the rise, growing from 11 Seattle, WA-based stores to more than 1,000 worldwide. Its goals grew, too, from the more modest, albeit fundamental one of offering high-quality coffee beans roasted ...

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Published: Jan 1999

The House of Gucci: A Sensational Sto...

Sara Gay Forden

Did Patrizia Reggiani murder her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci, in 1995 because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because her glamorous ex was preparing to marry his mistress, Paola Franchi? Or is there a possibility ...

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Published: Oct 2001

The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and...

Mary Pilon

The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to t...

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Published: Feb 2016

Virgin Territory: Richard Branson in ...

David Andrews

Richard Branson, who has been called "England's most outrageous billionaire," is also one of the world's most successful business leaders. Since the age of 16, when he founded Student magazine, Branson has been creating comp...

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Published: Aug 2013

Losing My Virginity: The Autobiograph...

Richard Branson

"Oh, screw it, let's do it."That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music...

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Published: Jun 2011

The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men W...

Sally Denton

From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power, the "compelling corporate history" (The National Book Review) and inside story of the Bechtel family and the empire they've controlled since the construction of the H...

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Published: Feb 2017

Jeff Bezos: The Force Behind the Bran...

Jr. MacGregor

What is it about him that makes him a super achiever?What about him can turn an idea into a world-changing mega-company?What about him is like you and what isn't?What can you learn from him? Read, and find out.The need to understand ...

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Published: Feb 2018

Hetty: The Genius and Madness of Amer...

Charles Slack

Challenges popular misconceptions about the nineteenth-century female tycoon's character to explore her considerable accomplishments in the world of finance at a time before women were legally able to vote, discussing Green's clashes ...

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Published: Jan 2004
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