29 Best Branding Books
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Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules
- By: Jeremy C. Miller
- Narrator: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 26, 2016
- Language: English
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4.05(928 ratings)
4.05(928 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDUsing the letters Warren Buffett wrote to his partners between 1956 and 1970, a veteran financial advisor presents the renowned guru’s “ground rules” for investing–guidelines that remain startlingly relevant today. In theUsing the letters Warren Buffett wrote to his partners between 1956 and 1970, a veteran financial advisor presents the renowned guru’s “ground rules” for investing–guidelines that remain startlingly relevant today.
In the fourteen years between his time in New York with value-investing guru Benjamin Graham and his start as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett managed Buffett Partnership Limited, his first professional investing partnership. Over the course of that time–a period in which he experienced an unprecedented record of success–Buffett wrote semiannual letters to his small but growing group of partners, sharing his thoughts, approaches, and reflections.
Compiled for the first time and with Buffett’s permission, the letters spotlight his contrarian diversification strategy, his almost religious celebration of compounding interest, his preference for conservative rather than conventional decision making, and his goal and tactics for bettering market results by at least 10% annually. Demonstrating Buffett’s intellectual rigor, they provide a framework to the craft of investing that had not existed before: Buffett built upon the quantitative contributions made by his famous teacher, Benjamin Graham, demonstrating how they could be applied and improved.
Jeremy Miller reveals how these letters offer us a rare look into Buffett’s mind and offer accessible lessons in control and discipline–effective in bull and bear markets alike, and in all types of investing climates–that are the bedrock of his success. Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules paints a portrait of the sage as a young investor during a time when he developed the long-term value-oriented strategy that helped him build the foundation of his wealth–rules for success every investor needs today.
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The Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio
- By: David Gardner
- Narrator: David Gardner
- Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 30, 2008
- Language: English
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3.8(361 ratings)
3.8(361 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USD“Motley Fool makes investing fun again.”—BetterInvesting Magazine The mission of Motley Fool–the multimedia financial education company cofounded in 1993 by brothers David and Tom Gardner–is to “educate, amuse,“Motley Fool makes investing fun again.”
—BetterInvesting MagazineThe mission of Motley Fool–the multimedia financial education company cofounded in 1993 by brothers David and Tom Gardner–is to “educate, amuse, and enrich.” Their valuable, innovative, and entertaining investing book, Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio provides insight, pointers, and sometimes very unorthodox advice that can help any investor build a seven-figure portfolio by out-thinking and out-maneuvering the professional financial wizards on Wall Street. With a new introduction by the authors, Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio offers irreverent investing wisdom ideal for any financial market, even the most bearish.
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The Myth of the Rational Market
- By: Justin Fox
- Narrator: Alan Sklar
- Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 09, 2010
- Language: English
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3.85(1829 ratings)
3.85(1829 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USD“Do we really need yet another book about the financial crisis? Yes, we do–because this one is different….A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we’re in.”–Paul Krugman, New York Times Book“Do we really need yet another book about the financial crisis? Yes, we do–because this one is different….A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we’re in.”
–Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review“Fox makes business history thrilling.”
—St. Louis Post-DispatchA lively history of ideas, The Myth of the Rational Market by former Time Magazine economics columnist Justin Fox, describes with insight and wit the rise and fall of the world’s most influential investing idea: the efficient markets theory. Both a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year–longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and named one of Library Journal Best Business Books of the Year–The Myth of the Rational Market carries readers from the earliest days of Wall Street to the current financial crisis, debunking the long-held myth that the stock market is always right in the process while intelligently exploring the replacement theory of behavioral economics.
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El inversor inteligente
- By: Benjamin Graham
- Narrator: Juan Manuel Acuna Rodriguez
- Length: 28 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
- Publish date: April 02, 2019
- Language: Spanish
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4.25(357 ratings)
4.25(357 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0051.99 USDA lo largo de los anos, la evolucion del mercado ha comprobado lo sabias que han sido las estrategias ensenadas por Graham. A la vez que conserva la integridad del texto original, esta edicion revisada incluye comentarios actualizados del famosoA lo largo de los anos, la evolucion del mercado ha comprobado lo sabias que han sido las estrategias ensenadas por Graham. A la vez que conserva la integridad del texto original, esta edicion revisada incluye comentarios actualizados del famoso periodista financiero Jason Zweig, cuya perspectiva incorpora las realidades del mercado presente, traza paralelismos entre los ejemplos de Graham y los titulares financieros actuales, y brinda a los lectores una comprension mas plena de como hacer para aplicar dichos principios.
Fundamental e indispensable, El inversor inteligente es el libro mas importante que usted leera jamas sobre como alcanzar sus objetivos en lo financiero.
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Debunkery
- By: Ken Fisher
- Narrator: John Morgan
- Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 02, 2010
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWant to become a better investor? Send your spouse on a shopping spree! It’s no joke–this book shows you why. Far too many investors fail to get the results they want because they make some pretty common mistakes. The problem is, theWant to become a better investor? Send your spouse on a shopping spree! It’s no joke–this book shows you why.
Far too many investors fail to get the results they want because they make some pretty common mistakes. The problem is, the errors don’t seem like mistakes–they seem like smart, intuitive, and/or widely recognized investing “wisdom.” But much of what’s accepted as investing “wisdom” is, instead, bunk. How can investors tell bunk from reality?
Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit From It–Seeing Through Wall Street’s Money-Killing Myths from legendary money manager, longtime Forbes columnist, and best-selling author Ken Fisher shows you how to avoid the costly errors many investors make when they rely upon “common sense” thinking, intuition, gut instinct, or cliches–by using debunkery! Debunkery isn’t difficult–it just requires the willingness to flip common investing “wisdom” on its head. Once readers learn to do that, they can begin seeing the investing world more clearly and stop falling prey to costly bunk.
Fisher demonstrates debunkery on 50 of Wall Street’s widely accepted “truths,” and details in an easily accessible (and always entertaining) way why:
- Stop-losses could be renamed stop-gains.
- High unemployment isn’t bad for stocks.
- Massive trade deficits can be great for stocks.
- Stocks don’t care if the US dollar is strong or weak.
- Most retirees have a long, long time to invest.
- You should never listen to your “gut” when it comes to investing.
- You are almost certainly too terrified of government debt.
- Consumer confidence doesn’t matter.
- Sending your spouse on a shopping spree could get you better long-term investing results.
In investing, there are no simple rules that say, “always sell on this one condition, and buy on that one,” that work consistently and repeatedly. If only investing were that easy!
Debunkery shows you why many Wall Street “truths” are, in reality, money-killing myths and walks you through ways you can begin improving your error rate right away. Debunkery debunks 50 common myths, but also gives you the tools to continue engaging in debunkery for the rest of your investing career.
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Den of Thieves
- By: James B. Stewart
- Narrator: John Hockenberry
- Length: 3 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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4.14(12258 ratings)
4.14(12258 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDA #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.Pulitzer Prize–winnerA #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.
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Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties’ biggest names on Wall Street—Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine —created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America’s most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.
Based on secret grand jury transcripts, interviews, and actual trading records, and containing explosive new revelations about Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky written especially for this paperback edition, Den of Thieves weaves all the facts into an unforgettable narrative—a portrait of human nature, big business, and crime of unparalleled proportions. -
The Great Crash 1929
- By: John Kenneth Galbraith
- Narrator: Brian Troxell
- Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 07, 2021
- Language: English
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3.93(4290 ratings)
3.93(4290 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDOf Galbraith’s classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:”Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith’s prose has grace and wit, and heOf Galbraith’s classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:”Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith’s prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation’s oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community.” Now, with the stock market riding historic highs, the celebrated economist returns with new insights on the legacy of our past and the consequences of blind optimism and power plays within the financial community.
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Racing in the Rain
- By: Garth Stein
- Narrator: Henry Leyva
- Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: May 03, 2011
- Language: English
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4.22(446774 ratings)
4.22(446774 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDNow a family friendly major motion picture from Fox 2000 Studios–featuring Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried, and Kevin Costner as the voice of Enzo the dog! In this young readers’ edition of the New York Times bestselling adult novelNow a family friendly major motion picture from Fox 2000 Studios–featuring Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried, and Kevin Costner as the voice of Enzo the dog!
In this young readers’ edition of the New York Times bestselling adult novel The Art of Racing in the Rain, meet one funny mutt–Enzo, the lovable dog who tells this story.
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs. Most dogs love to chase cars, but Enzo longs to race them.
He learns about racing and the world around him by watching TV and by listening to the words of his best friend, Denny, an up-and-coming race car driver, and Denny’s daughter, Zoe, his constant companion. Enzo finds that life is just like being on the racetrack–it isn’t simply about going fast.
Applying the rules of racing to his world, Enzo takes on his family’s challenges and emerges a hero. In the end, Enzo holds in his heart the dream that Denny will go on to be a racing champion with his daughter by his side.
For theirs is an extraordinary friendship–one that reminds us all to celebrate the triumph of the human (and canine) spirit.
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Make Some Noise
- By: Ken Schmidt
- Narrator: Ken Schmidt
- Length: 28 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.38(13 ratings)
4.38(13 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDThe former director of communications at Harley-Davidson and one of the most sought-after speakers in the world reveals his exhilarating, innovative approach to creating customer loyalty and marketplace dominance.Ken Schmidt is a wanted man. HisThe former director of communications at Harley-Davidson and one of the most sought-after speakers in the world reveals his exhilarating, innovative approach to creating customer loyalty and marketplace dominance.
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Ken Schmidt is a wanted man. His role in transforming Harley-Davidson Motor Company–one of the most celebrated corporate success stories in history–led business leaders all over the world to seek his guidance. After all, how many companies can get their customers to tattoo their logo on their arms?
After having worked with more than one thousand companies worldwide, Schmidt is ready to share the secrets that spurred Harley-Davidson’s remarkable turnaround. An avid motorcycle enthusiast, Schmidt harnessed his passion for riding to create his famed Noise Cubed Trilogy–the three questions he asks every one of his clients. They assess a company’s positioning, competitiveness, and reputation, and are the key ingredients for any successful corporation: What do the customers your business served yesterday say about your business when they’re talking about you to prospective customers? What do you want them to say? What are you doing to get them to say it?
In Make Some Noise, Schmidt shares his full-throttle approach for businesses and individuals alike. Anyone looking to become more competitive and grow customer loyalty can learn from the case studies and experiences he shares. From a nondescript heavy construction company, to the most high-end “luxury” gas station in America, to Apple, and to his own personal landscaper, Schmidt illustrates how the answers to his trio of questions will yield a course of action to stand out in today’s marketplace. -
The Spider Network
- By: David Enrich
- Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 15 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 21, 2017
- Language: English
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4.07(3557 ratings)
4.07(3557 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.006.99 USDThe Wall Street Journal‘s award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatestThe Wall Street Journal‘s award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history.
In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the world’s largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor–the London interbank offered rate, which determines the interest rates on trillions in loans worldwide–was set daily by a small group of easily manipulated functionaries, and that they could reap huge profits by nudging it to suit their trading portfolios. Tom Hayes, a brilliant but troubled mathematician, became the lynchpin of a wild alliance that among others included a French trader nicknamed “Gollum”; the broker “Abbo,” who liked to publicly strip naked when drinking; a Kazakh chicken farmer turned something short of financial whiz kid; a broker known as “Village” (short for “Village Idiot”) and fascinated with human-animal sex; an executive called “Clumpy” because of his patchwork hair loss; and a broker uncreatively nicknamed “Big Nose.” Eventually known as the “Spider Network,” Hayes’s circle generated untold riches –until it all unraveled in spectacularly vicious, backstabbing fashion.
The Spider Network is not only a rollicking account of the scam, but a provocative examination of a financial system that was crooked throughout, designed to promote envelope-pushing behavior while shielding higher-ups from the consequences of their subordinates’ rapacious actions.
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The Black Prism
- By: Brent Weeks
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 21 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 25, 2010
- Language: English
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4.23(99020 ratings)
4.23(99020 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDIn a world where magic is tightly controlled, the most powerful man in history must choose between his kingdom and his son in the first book in the epic NYT bestselling Lightbringer series. Guile is the Prism. He is high priest and emperor, a manIn a world where magic is tightly controlled, the most powerful man in history must choose between his kingdom and his son in the first book in the epic NYT bestselling Lightbringer series.
Guile is the Prism. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live.
When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he’s willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.
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If you loved the action and adventure of the Night Angel trilogy, you will devour this incredible epic fantasy series by Brent Weeks. -
Sarah, Plain and Tall
- By: Patricia MacLachlan
- Narrator: Glenn Close
- Length: 1 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: November 18, 2008
- Language: English
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3.81(74295 ratings)
3.81(74295 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.99 USDThis beloved Newbery Medal-winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan’s chapter book series about the Witting family. Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna’s point of view, Sarah, Plain and TallThis beloved Newbery Medal-winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan’s chapter book series about the Witting family.
Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna’s point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa’s advertisement for a wife and mother. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she sing? Will she stay?
This children’s literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language, and it’s a strong choice for independent reading. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss, and love.
Read the rest of the Sarah books by Patricia MacLachlan: Skylark, Caleb’s Story, More Perfect than the Moon, and Grandfather’s Dance.
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The Infinite Machine
- By: Camila Russo
- Narrator: Laura Jennings
- Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 14, 2020
- Language: English
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4.15(1481 ratings)
4.15(1481 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.006.99 USDWritten with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, andWritten with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the future of the internet as we know it.
Everyone has heard of Bitcoin, but few know about the second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, which has been heralded as the “next internet.”
The story of Ethereum begins with Vitalik Buterin, a supremely gifted nineteen-year-old autodidact who saw the promise of blockchain when the technology was in its earliest stages. He convinced a crack group of coders to join him in his quest to make a super-charged, global computer.
The Infinite Machine introduces Vitalik’s ingenious idea and unfolds Ethereum’s chaotic beginnings. It then explores the brilliant innovation and reckless greed the platform–an infinitely adaptable foundation for experimentation and new applications–has unleashed and the consequences that resulted as the frenzy surrounding it grew: increased regulatory scrutiny, incipient Wall Street interest, and the founding team’s effort to get the Ethereum platform to scale so it can eventually be accessible to the masses.
Financial journalist and cryptocurrency expert Camila Russo details the wild and often hapless adventures of a team of hippy-anarchists, reluctantly led by an ambivalent visionary, and lays out how this new foundation for the internet will spur both transformation and fraud–turning some into millionaires and others into felons–and revolutionize our ideas about money.
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The Intelligent Investor
- By: Benjamin Graham
- Narrator: Bill McGowan
- Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 21, 2005
- Language: English
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4.25(107378 ratings)
4.25(107378 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USD“By far the best book on investing ever written.” –Warren Buffett The definitive book on value investing, this hardcover edition feature’s Benjamin Graham’s original wisdom from 1949 and includes a foreword by John C.“By far the best book on investing ever written.” –Warren Buffett
The definitive book on value investing, this hardcover edition feature’s Benjamin Graham’s original wisdom from 1949 and includes a foreword by John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group
The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham’s philosophy of “value investing”–which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies–has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication.
Vital and indispensable, The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.
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Wall Street and Its Mystery Men
- By: Robert Sobel
- Narrator: Louis Rukeyser
- Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.56(26 ratings)
3.56(26 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.95 USDIn America’s financial nerve center, fortunes are made, and sometimes lost. J.P. Morgan, Jay Gould, Hetty Green, Jim Brady, Jesse Livermore, Bernard Baruch, Joseph Kennedy, and many others have made “the street” what it is today.In America’s financial nerve center, fortunes are made, and sometimes lost. J.P. Morgan, Jay Gould, Hetty Green, Jim Brady, Jesse Livermore, Bernard Baruch, Joseph Kennedy, and many others have made “the street” what it is today. Learn about the techniques, principles, and innovations that have shaped the market, and sharpen your ability to interpret today’s market in a broad historical context.
The Secrets of the Great Investors series is a collection of presentations that explain, in understandable language, the strategies, tactics, and principles that have produced great wealth, and how you can improve your financial future. History’s greatest investors used powerful investing philosophies to produce superior results, and you can learn from their successes and mistakes.
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Fascinate, Revised and Updated
- By: Sally Hogshead
- Narrator: Sally Hogshead
- Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 26, 2016
- Language: English
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3.91(161 ratings)
3.91(161 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWhy is Jagermeister the most popular brand nobody likes? Why do women pay more to be fascinating than they spend on food and clothes? What raises the price of gummy worms by 1000%? And then there’s the most important question of all: How canWhy is Jagermeister the most popular brand nobody likes? Why do women pay more to be fascinating than they spend on food and clothes? What raises the price of gummy worms by 1000%?
And then there’s the most important question of all: How can your brand become impossible to resist? Master marketer Sally Hogshead reveals the surprising answers, providing readers with a framework to fascinating anyone.
The word “fascinate” comes from the Latin word fascinare, meaning “to bewitch or hold captive so others are powerless to resist.” Fascination is the most powerful force of attraction, drawing customers into a state of intense focus.
This extensively revised and updated edition includes Hogshead’s latest research on the science of fascination. Combining original case studies with award-winning copywriting experience, she gives you the exact words you need to capture the attention of a distracted world.
This new edition includes a free assessment tool called the Brand Fascination Profile, which will help you earn attention in any environment.
Dive into the science of fascination and learn how to:
- Increase prices with ideas from poker to Play-Doh
- Build revenue by learning about the $14 million license plate
- Get better leads through hypnosis by Sigmund Freud and Steve Jobs
- Attract raving fans by following the cult of pistachio ice cream
Whether you realize it or not, your brand is already applying one of the seven Advantages Hogshead describes here: Innovation, Passion, Power, Prestige, Mystique, Alert, or Trust. The question is, how can you apply these core Advantages to stand out in a crowded and distracted world? Hundreds of large corporations, small businesses, and universities–including Twitter, IBM, Porsche, and New York University–use the Fascinate system to captivate their customers. Why? The answers are in this book.
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The Way of Shadows
- By: Brent Weeks
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 17 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 17, 2023
- Language: English
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4.15(150371 ratings)
4.15(150371 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0044.99 USDFrom NYT bestselling author Brent Weeks comes the first novel in his breakout fantasy trilogy in which a young boy trains under the city’s most legendary and feared assassin, Durzo Blint. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art — and heFrom NYT bestselling author Brent Weeks comes the first novel in his breakout fantasy trilogy in which a young boy trains under the city’s most legendary and feared assassin, Durzo Blint.
For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art — and he is the city’s most accomplished artist.
For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he’s grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly — and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.
But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins’ world of dangerous politics and strange magics — and cultivate a flair for death.
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Captivology
- By: Ben Parr
- Narrator: Lloyd James
- Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 03, 2015
- Language: English
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3.8(285 ratings)
3.8(285 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDThe former editor of Mashable and cofounder of DominateFund examines the psychological phenomena that captivate our attention–and how we can leverage them to draw and retain attention for our ideas, work, companies, and more. WhetherThe former editor of Mashable and cofounder of DominateFund examines the psychological phenomena that captivate our attention–and how we can leverage them to draw and retain attention for our ideas, work, companies, and more.
Whether you’re an artist or a salesperson, a teacher or an engineer, a marketer or a parent–putting the spotlight on your ideas, insights, projects and products requires a deep understanding of the science of attention. In Captivology, award-winning journalist and entrepreneur Ben Parr explains how and why the mind pays attention to some events or people–and not others–and presents seven captivation triggers–techniques guaranteed to help you capture and retain the attention of friends, colleagues, customers, fans, and even strangers.
Parr combines the latest research on attention with interviews with more than fifty scientists and visionaries–Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, film director Steven Soderbergh, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, magician Jon Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author Susan Cain, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, founder of Reddit Alexis Ohanian, and more–who have successfully brought their ideas, projects, companies, and products to the forefront of cultural consciousness. The result is an insightful and practical book that will change how you assign jobs to your kids or staff, craft a multi-million dollar ad campaign, deliver your next presentation, attract users to your product, or convince the world to support your cause.
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Down a Dark Hall
- By: Lois Duncan
- Narrator: Emma Galvin
- Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 19, 2011
- Language: English
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3.76(6626 ratings)
3.76(6626 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.98 USDA paranormal rollercoaster ride with goosebumps at every turn–now a motion picture starring Uma Thurman and Anna Sophia Robb! Kit Gordy sees Blackwood Hall towering over black iron gates, and she can’t help thinking, This place is evil.... Read moreA paranormal rollercoaster ride with goosebumps at every turn–now a motion picture starring Uma Thurman and Anna Sophia Robb!Kit Gordy sees Blackwood Hall towering over black iron gates, and she can’t help thinking, This place is evil. The imposing mansion sends a shiver of fear through her. But Kit settles into a routine, trying to ignore the rumors that the highly exclusive boarding school is haunted.Then her classmates begin to show extraordinary and unknown talents. The strange dreams, the voices, the lost letters to family and friends, all become overshadowed by the magic around them.
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The Dragon’s Path
- By: Daniel Abraham
- Narrator: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 12, 2018
- Language: English
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3.8(17201 ratings)
3.8(17201 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USD“Everything I look for in a fantasy.” — George R. R. Martin All paths lead to war. . . Marcus’ hero days are behind him. He knows too well that even the smallest war still means somebody’s death. When his men are“Everything I look for in a fantasy.” — George R. R. Martin
All paths lead to war. . .
Marcus’ hero days are behind him. He knows too well that even the smallest war still means somebody’s death. When his men are impressed into a doomed army, staying out of a battle he wants no part of requires some unorthodox steps.
Cithrin is an orphan, ward of a banking house. Her job is to smuggle a nation’s wealth across a war zone, hiding the gold from both sides. She knows the secret life of commerce like a second language, but the strategies of trade will not defend her from swords.
Geder, sole scion of a noble house, has more interest in philosophy than in swordplay. A poor excuse for a soldier, he is a pawn in these games. No one can predict what he will become.
Falling pebbles can start a landslide. A spat between the Free Cities and the Severed Throne is spiraling out of control. A new player rises from the depths of history, fanning the flames that will sweep the entire region onto The Dragon’s Path — the path to war.
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The School for Good and Evil #2: A World without Princes
- By: Soman Chainani
- Narrator: Polly Lee
- Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: April 15, 2014
- Language: English
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4.01(35298 ratings)
4.01(35298 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDTHE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL will soon be a major motion picture from Netflix–starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Sofia Wylie, Sophie Anne Caruso, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, KitTHE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL will soon be a major motion picture from Netflix–starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Sofia Wylie, Sophie Anne Caruso, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Kit Young, and more!
In the New York Times bestselling sequel to Soman Chainani’s debut, The School for Good and Evil, Sophie and Agatha are back in Gavaldon, living out their Happily Ever After, but life isn’t quite the fairy tale they expected.
Witches and princesses reside at the School for Girls, where they’ve been inspired to live a life without princes, while Tedros and the boys are camping in Evil’s old towers. A war is brewing between the schools, but can Agatha and Sophie restore the peace? Can Sophie stay good with Tedros on the hunt? And whose heart does Agatha’s belong to–her best friend or her prince?
Soman Chainani has created a spectacular world that Newbery Medal-winning author Ann M. Martin calls “a fairy tale like no other, complete with romance, magic, humor, and a riddle that will keep you turning pages until the end.
Don’t miss the thrilling conclusion to the beloved series, The School for Good and Evil #6: One True King!
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Testimony
- By: Scott Turow
- Narrator: Wayne Pyle
- Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 16, 2017
- Language: English
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3.67(3044 ratings)
3.67(3044 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USDScott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and “one of the major writers in America” (NPR), returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor’s investigation of a refugee camp’s mystifyingScott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and “one of the major writers in America” (NPR), returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor’s investigation of a refugee camp’s mystifying disappearance.
At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court–an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity–he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire Roma refugee camp vanished. Now for the first time, a witness has stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the camp’s Gypsy residents to a cave in the middle of the night–and then with a hand grenade set off an avalanche, burying 400 people alive. Only Ferko survived.
Boom’s task is to examine Ferko’s claims and determinine who might have massacred the Roma. His investigation takes him from the International Criminal Court’s base in Holland to the cities and villages of Bosnia and secret meetings in Washington, DC, as Boom sorts through a host of suspects, ranging from Serb paramilitaries, to organized crime gangs, to the US government itself, while also maneuvering among the alliances and treacheries of those connected to the case: Layton Merriwell, a disgraced US major general desperate to salvage his reputation; Sergeant Major Atilla Doby,a vital cog in American military operations near the camp at the time of the Roma’s disappearance; Laza Kajevic, the brutal former leader of the Bosnian Serbs; Esma Czarni, Ferko’s alluring barrister; and of course, Ferko himself, on whose testimony the entire case rests-and who may know more than he’s telling.
A master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow has returned with his most irresistibly confounding and satisfying novel yet.
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Dark Towers
- By: David Enrich
- Narrator: BJ Harrison
- Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 18, 2020
- Language: English
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3.98(3085 ratings)
3.98(3085 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USD“In Dark Towers, David Enrich tells the story of how one of the world’s mightiest banks careened off the rails, threatening everything from our financial system to our democracy through its reckless entanglement with Donald Trump. Darkly“In Dark Towers, David Enrich tells the story of how one of the world’s mightiest banks careened off the rails, threatening everything from our financial system to our democracy through its reckless entanglement with Donald Trump. Darkly fascinating and yet all too real, it’s a tale that will keep you up at night.”
— John Carreyrou, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of Bad BloodA searing expose of the most scandalous bank in the world, including its shadowy ties to Donald Trump’s business empire
On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank’s efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much.
In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank’s history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law.
Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality–the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he’d seen at the bank–and his son’s obsessive search for the secrets he kept.
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The Chickenshit Club
- By: Jesse Eisinger
- Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.79(1362 ratings)
3.79(1362 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDWinner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities andWinner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission…It is a book of superheroes” (San Francisco Review of Books).
Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing with impunity? The problem goes beyond banks deemed “Too Big to Fail” to almost every large corporation in America–to pharmaceutical companies and auto manufacturers and beyond. The Chickenshit Club–an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to do their jobs–explains why in “an absorbing financial history, a monumental work of journalism…a first-rate study of the federal bureaucracy” (Bloomberg Businessweek).
Jesse Eisinger begins the story in the 1970s, when the government pioneered the notion that top corporate executives, not just seedy crooks, could commit heinous crimes and go to prison. He brings us to trading desks on Wall Street, to corporate boardrooms and the offices of prosecutors and FBI agents. These revealing looks provide context for the evolution of the Justice Department’s approach to pursuing corporate criminals through the early 2000s and into the Justice Department of today, including the prosecutorial fiascos, corporate lobbying, trial losses, and culture shifts that have stripped the government of the will and ability to prosecute top corporate executives.
“Brave and elegant…a fearless reporter…Eisinger’s important and profound book takes no prisoners” (The Washington Post). Exposing one of the most important scandals of our time, The Chickenshit Club provides a clear, detailed explanation as to how our Justice Department has come to avoid, bungle, and mismanage the fight to bring these alleged criminals to justice. “This book is a wakeup call…a chilling read, and a needed one” (NPR.org). -
The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.
- By: Benjamin Graham
- Narrator: Luke Daniels
- Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 07, 2015
- Language: English
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4.25(8 ratings)
4.25(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USD“By far the best book on investing ever written.” — Warren Buffett The classic text of Benjamin Graham’s seminal The Intelligent Investor has now been revised and annotated to update the timeless wisdom for today’s“By far the best book on investing ever written.” — Warren Buffett
The classic text of Benjamin Graham’s seminal The Intelligent Investor has now been revised and annotated to update the timeless wisdom for today’s market conditions.
The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham’s philosophy of “value investing”–which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies–has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.
Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham’s strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham’s original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today’s market, draws parallels between Graham’s examples and today’s financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham’s principles.
Vital and indispensable, this revised edition of The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.
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Of Curses and Kisses
- By: Sandhya Menon
- Narrator: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.43(7090 ratings)
3.43(7090 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USD“Fans of Menon’s frothy, contemporary rom-coms will be excited for this venture into new territory.” —Booklist “[A] dreamy, sassy confection of a romance…Funny, extravagant, and satisfying.” —Shelf“Fans of Menon’s frothy, contemporary rom-coms will be excited for this venture into new territory.” —Booklist
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“[A] dreamy, sassy confection of a romance…Funny, extravagant, and satisfying.” —Shelf Awareness
From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the first novel in a brand-new series set at an elite boarding school that’s a contemporary spin on Beauty and the Beast.
Will the princess save the beast?
For Princess Jaya Rao, nothing is more important than family. When the loathsome Emerson clan steps up their centuries-old feud to target Jaya’s little sister, nothing will keep Jaya from exacting her revenge. Then Jaya finds out she’ll be attending the same elite boarding school as Grey Emerson, and it feels like the opportunity of a lifetime. She knows what she must do: Make Grey fall in love with her and break his heart. But much to Jaya’s annoyance, Grey’s brooding demeanor and lupine blue eyes have drawn her in. There’s simply no way she and her sworn enemy could find their fairy-tale ending…right?
His Lordship Grey Emerson is a misanthrope. Thanks to an ancient curse by a Rao matriarch, Grey knows he’s doomed once he turns eighteen. Sequestered away in the mountains at St. Rosetta’s International Academy, he’s lived an isolated existence–until Jaya Rao bursts into his life, but he can’t shake the feeling that she’s hiding something. Something that might just have to do with the rose-shaped ruby pendant around her neck…
As the stars conspire to keep them apart, Jaya and Grey grapple with questions of love, loyalty, and whether it’s possible to write your own happy ending. -
Shopportunity!
- By: Kate Newlin
- Narrator: Kimberly Schraf
- Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 19, 2006
- Language: English
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2.49(33 ratings)
2.49(33 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDToday’s shopping culture is turning the shopper into a zombie–and the thrill of the hunt into the robotic management of inventory. For millions of us, the sizzle of a daily shopping experience has devolved into a relentless acquisitionToday’s shopping culture is turning the shopper into a zombie–and the thrill of the hunt into the robotic management of inventory. For millions of us, the sizzle of a daily shopping experience has devolved into a relentless acquisition of the okay, available, and cheap. Why are we willing to pay $3.50 for a latte at Starbucks, but bristle at a 10-cent increase in the price of toothpaste? Why do we drive miles out of our way to buy a bag of 100 razor blades for 50-cents less than at our local store, and then spend $3.99 on a tub of pretzels that we don’t need? We’re wasting our time and money at the cost of our patience and good will.
In Shopportunity!, marketing expert Kate Newlin looks behind the aisles of our best known retailers to reveal that the dopamine rush of getting a good deal is confusing shoppers’ wants with their needs. Packed with perceptive reporting, Shopportunity! provides an insider’s view of how marketers create a brand, and the overwhelming power of retailers to interfere with the transformational joys that great brands bring to our daily lives. It is time for shoppers to revolutionize their shopping experience and take the power away from retailers. Culminating in a Shopper’s Bill of Rights, Shopportunity! will liberate shoppers–as well as the manufacturers and retailers who serve them–from the tyranny of the cheap.
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The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
- By: Jamie Ford
- Narrator: Jennifer Lim
- Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.91(11272 ratings)
3.91(11272 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! “One of the most beautiful books of motherhood and what we pass on to those that come after us.” –Jenna Bush Hager, Today The New York TimesINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
“One of the most beautiful books of motherhood and what we pass on to those that come after us.” –Jenna Bush Hager, Today
The New York Times bestselling author of the “mesmerizing and evocative” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations.
Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living.
As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help.
Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America.
As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn’t the only thing she’s inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who’s loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price. -
The House of Morgan
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Length: 34 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.94(8825 ratings)
3.94(8825 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDWinner 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. Acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as “brilliantly researched andWinner 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. Acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as “brilliantly researched and written,” the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world.
A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.
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