The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup
By: Evan Hughes
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until…
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1. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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2. The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath
By: Philip Carlo
4.20
Format: 24 pages,
Written by the bestselling author of The Ice Man, The Butcheris a gripping and disturbing fly-on-th… read more
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3. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels
By: Paul Pringle
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal … read more
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4. When McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more
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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town
5. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
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6. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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7. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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8. Raising Lazarus
By: Beth Macy
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more
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9. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
By: Emily Lynn Paulson
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more
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10. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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11. Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
By: Barry Meier
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid e… read more
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12. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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13. The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup
By: Evan Hughes
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until… read more
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14. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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15. American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
By: Chris McGreal
4.15
Format: 336 pages, ebook
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But ca… read more
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16. American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
By: Scott Higham
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created an… read more
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17. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
By: Anne Case
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the f… read more
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"As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any."-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Afghanistan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation’s opioid supply in Tasma…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"It would be a tragedy if the profits of the drug trade were allowed to corrupt America and were later seen, as was the case in China a century and a half ago, as the beginning of a hundred years …"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"As is often noted, and only partially in jest, economists seek to explain why people choose to commit suicide, while sociologists explain why they have no such choice. On suicide, the sociologists ha…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
18. What the Taliban Told Me
By: Ian Fritz
3.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When … read more
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19. Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease
By: Jason Dearen
4.41
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug… read more
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20. The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage
By: Jonathan Turley
4.50
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all t… read more
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21. Selling: Hard Lessons Learned
By: Alec Burlakoff
1.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
What can a sales professional learn from a man who went to federal prison? A lot! My name is Alec… read more
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