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An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalism NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana...

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.

In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power. The years...

This is the story of a man caught in the middle of a huge American destabilising operation, illustrating the secret economic war that the United States is waging against developed nations across the world. In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frédéric Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's subsidiaries, found himself at the heart of this state scandal. His story goes to the very heart of a $12 billion thriller that illustrates the secret economic war that the United States is waging in Europe.

A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead. “The best one-volume history of American capitalism . . . It is impossible to understand the United...

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. 

In The Secret History of the American Empire, Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world and, drawing on interviews with other hit men, jackals, reporters, and activists, examines the current geopolitical crisis. Instability is the norm; it's clear that the world we've created is dangerous and no longer sustainable. How did we get here? Who's responsible? What good have we done and at what cost? And what can we do to change things for the next generations?

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from 45 to 72 years. The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era.

Introduction read by the author himself! A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read “Eye opening, deeply researched, and snort-out-your-nose funny. I dare you to put it down.” —William Bernstein, author of The Four Pillars of Investing “Refreshingly unequivocal advice.” —Publishers Weekly In...

The All-American Way™ is a book about how we can rebuild a better society—one where dignity responsibility, and helping others matter most. In a world where old systems are falling apart, this book offers a hopeful plan. Not by destroying everything, but by pulling the right string—fixing what's broken and creating something better. With compassion, courage, and a strong belief in the future, this book invites readers to think differently about leadership, government, and what it truly means to serve others. The All-American Way™ isn't just a dream—it's a real effort to change things.

A New York Times bestselling historian confronts the myth of American meritocracy and our enduring reverence for the über-rich—and how that feedback loop corrodes democracy Americans are taught to see aristocracy as everything we are not. Yet from the Revolution forward, the nation has...

In The American Dream: Why It's Still Alive... And How to Achieve It, author Alexander Green extols America's exceptionalism, underscoring its unmatched economic dominance, technological innovation, and cultural influence, and highlights the importance of American ideals and the nation's capacity to provide upward mobility and prosperity to its citizens.

Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and...

A “provocative” (Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what’s good for American business and what’s good for Americans—and why those interests are misaligned. In American Amnesia, bestselling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson trace the economic and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine...

A New York Times Bestseller A multigenerational saga of two families, who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of wealth and power, that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump...

American Legacy is a podcast championing the ideals of hard work, integrity, and personal character through the tales of Americans who have lived them. Here, you will hear from the heroes of our armed services, police forces, as well as entrepreneurial people who show up every day to their manufacturing or privately owned companies, the sort of jobs that keep America going yet often get overlooked. It is our intent to capture these stories for later generations to remember the sacrifices that the hard working Americans that came before them made every day, so that this can remain the greatest ...

In American Mojo: Lost and Found, Peter D. Kiernan, the award-winning author of the New York Times best-seller Becoming China's Bitch, focuses on America's greatest challenge and opportunity: restoring the middle class to its full promise and potential. Our educated, skilled, and motivated middle class was the cornerstone of America's postwar economic might, but the country's dynamic core has struggled and changed dramatically through the last three decades.

Motorcycling has always been about more than the machine. It's about the stories — the ones that happen on the road, on the track, at the starting line, and in the quiet moments in between.The American Motorcyclist Podcast is where those stories live.Each episode goes deeper into the world of motorcycling — the people who shape it, the events that define it, the culture that sustains it, and the organization and magazine that has been telling its stories for decades. From behind-the-scenes conversations with the editorial team to interviews with riders, racers, advocates, and the everyday ...

America faces an economic crossroads. While politicians debate border walls and deportations, the very people who built Silicon Valley, Main Street businesses, and manufacturing powerhouses are being turned away.