Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
By: Edward J. Renehan Jr.
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its…
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1. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
By: Rich Cohen
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and Sweet and LowWhe… read more
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2. The Naked and the Dead
By: Norman Mailer
3.95
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead rece… read more
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"Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Tex…"-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
3. A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
By: Edward O. Thorp
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to be… read more
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- history
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4. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
5. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
By: Charles R. Morris
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visi… read more
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- american history
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6. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
By: Ron Chernow
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dy… read more
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7. The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
By: Steven Watts
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but nev… read more
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8. Confessions of an Advertising Man
By: David Ogilvy , Alan Parker
3.95
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
David Ogilvy was an advertising genius. At the age of 37, he founded the New York-based agency that… read more
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9. Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
By: Edward J. Renehan Jr.
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its… read more
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10. Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
By: Robert Anderson , Ray Kroc
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. … read more
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11. Only the Paranoid Survive
By: Andrew S. Grove
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most … read more
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12. Ogilvy on Advertising
By: David Ogilvy
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the m… read more
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13. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
By: Roger L. Martin , A.G. Lafley
4.54
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Are you just playing--or playing to win? Strategy is not complex. But it ishard. It's hard because … read more
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14. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
By: T.J. Stiles
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created mo… read more
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15. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson , Donald Goldsmith
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
"An accessible and extremely well-written exploration of the deep waters of cosmology, astrophysics… read more
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16. Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America
By: Les Standiford
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two founding fathers of American industry.One desire to dominate business at any price. The author … read more
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17. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
By: Mike Duncan
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more
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18. One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
By: John Rothchild , Peter Lynch
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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19. Elon Musk
By: Walter Isaacson
4.40
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more
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"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk
20. Delta-v (Delta-v, #1)
By: Daniel Suarez
4.16
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private … read more
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"Sorry. Just paralyzed by the indescribable beauty of the cosmos. We'll get to work."-Daniel Suarez, Delta-v (Delta-v, #1)
"Well, for once in my life, I not only know why I’m here, at this place, I finally know why I exist. I’ve always wondered why I was so odd. What possible evolutionary purpose could a person like me se…"-Daniel Suarez, Delta-v (Delta-v, #1)
