28 Top history books like Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman

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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

By: Peter S. Goodman

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller The history of the last half century in America, Europe, an…

If you liked the history plot in Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman , here is a list of 28 books like this:

Cover of Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher

1. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swisher's Burn Book: A Tech Love Story book and Peter S. Goodman's Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich

2. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
"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

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3. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas

4. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

By: Brian Klaas

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews w… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
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5. Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It

By: Elie Honig

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the p… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman

6. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

7. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

Similar categories in Rob Copeland's The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend book and Peter S. Goodman's Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman

8. Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

By: Peter S. Goodman

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller The history of the last half century in America, Europe, an… read more

Similar categories in Peter S. Goodman's Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World book and Peter S. Goodman's Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

  • cultural
  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz

9. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

By: Jonathan M. Katz

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shap… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan M. Katz's Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire book and Peter S. Goodman's Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab

10. The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

By: Tim Schwab

3.72

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy t… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
"The foundation enjoys unparalleled privileges in the marketplace. It is not taxed or regulated as a private company because all its deal making happens through charitable agreements. It is not scruti…"

-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

"Bill Gates is not plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into journalism because he believes in the democratic ideals of the free press or because he is a personal fan of watchdog reporting. His pri…"

-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

"Gates donates money from his private wealth to his private foundation. He then assembles a small group of consultants and experts at the foundation’s half-billion-dollar corporate headquarters to dec…"

-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

"Across most of the diseases the Gates Foundation works on, its track record of innovation is quite weak. Gates planted its flag as the leading voice on malaria, working with a number of different com…"

-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

Cover of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin

11. Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

By: Rebecca Giblin

4.26

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech a… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior

12. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

By: Sarah Kendzior

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Kendzior's They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent book and Peter S. Goodman's Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"The word “conspire"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

13. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Chayka's Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture book and Peter S. Goodman's Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain

14. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

By: Dominic Erdozain

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

15. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson

16. Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

By: Scott Patterson

3.78

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A Wall Street Journal bestseller Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fasci… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

17. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard

18. The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

By: Christopher Leonard

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of Ameri… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul by Tripp Mickle

19. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

By: Tripp Mickle

4.10

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the pass… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles

20. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy

By: David Gelles

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles revea… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale by Simon     Clark

21. The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

By: Simon Clark

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Arif Naqvi was charismatic, inspiring, and self-made—all the qualities of a successful business lea… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Roy Richard  Grinker

22. Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

By: Roy Richard Grinker

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
". . . symptoms of mental illnesses are inevitably local."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

"The value of any diagnosis is what it has to offer the sufferer."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

". . . illnesses that derive from the stresses of war come in many different forms. Every war has its own syndromes."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

". . . mental illness categories are just temporary names or frameworks to help us understand patterns of behavior that cause suffering."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Cover of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff

23. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

By: Douglas Rushkoff

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"

-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Cover of Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice by David Enrich

24. Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

By: David Enrich

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times’s Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers c… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"On January 6, months of fearmongering and lies about voter fraud and a stolen election exploded into a deadly insurrection. Jones Day wasn't to blame, but it wasn't not to blame either. The firm had …"

-David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

Cover of The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors by Spencer Jakab

25. The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

By: Spencer Jakab

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The saga of GameStop and other meme stocks is revealed with the skill of a thrilling whodunit. Jaka… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick by J. David  McSwane

26. Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

By: J. David McSwane

3.89

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

“This startling, vital book deserves our attention.” —San Francisco Chronicle For fans of War Dogs … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos

27. The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

By: Stefanos Geroulanos

3.76

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

An eminent historian demonstrates how claims about the origins of humanity have been used to justif… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers by Jim             Morris

28. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

By: Jim Morris

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government by Brody Mullins

29. The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government

By: Brody Mullins

4.30

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Two veteran investigative journalists trace the rise of the modern lobbying industry through the th… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Kent State: An American Tragedy by Brian VanDeMark

30. Kent State: An American Tragedy

By: Brian VanDeMark

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A definitive history of the fatal clash between Vietnam War protestors and the National Guard, illu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

28 Best audiobook books like Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

Brian Klaas

4.17

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21 Top audiobook books like Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Becca Rothfeld

3.76

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