Company Histories

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“A detailed and devastating portrait of a company whose influence reverberates throughout American society.

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“A duo of enabling events opened the door to the descent into legal unprofessionalism, starting with a Supreme Court decision that permitted lawyers to advertise, at least on a limited basi

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Information flows at a rapid pace. Following a plane crash, people are anxious to know the cause. Little factual information is available.

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Brad Stone is a Bloomberg Journalist who has previously written The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.

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“Berger does a great job here of not only profiling SpaceX, but also capturing the total brinksmanship of its swashbuckling founder.”

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For probably the silliest of reasons I wanted to review this book on one of New York City’s great landmark hotels, The Plaza.

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What is “value”? How is it established? And how has its meaning changed over time?

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Without the Federal Reserve Bank, there might not be ecommerce or even an Internet, which both depend on money.  A century ago the country lacked the financial institutions to be globally competiti

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“Robinson makes a strong case for the spiritual underpinnings of Jobs’s creation in a fascinating, hard-to-refute way.”

Steve Jobs, apostle.

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“Simply put, avid concertgoers will likely enjoy this book or throw up reading it—perhaps both.”

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In 1990 Wall Street Journal reporters Bryan Burrough and John Helyar wrote Barbarians at the Gate, the account of the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.