Category - Business & Economics
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America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely bir...
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Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A 2017 Michigan Notable Book After World War II, the American automobile industry was reeling. Having spent years building tanks and airplanes fo...
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Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power...
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from t...
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Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920...
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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America’s railroad titans In 1869, when the final sp...
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Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerTrue heroes are almost by definition "ordinary." Galvanized in a moment, they are individuals who often unexpectedly ? ...
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The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy…McCarrah...
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Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a tur...
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /2022 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist Latinx Files 2022 Best Books, Los Angeles Times LA Taco’s 2022 Best BooksMacArthur Genius Natalia M...
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Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth a...
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How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /How Dwight D. Eisenhower led America through a transformational time—by a DC policy strategist, security expert and his granddaughter. Few people...
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Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as wha...
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American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A gripping, “rollicking” (John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood) biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th-centur...
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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labo...
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An award-winning historian’s “searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade—and its role in the making of America Slav...
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerArthur Sackler, physician, CEO, quasi-journalist and patriarch of Purdue Pharma, by dint of personality, drive and the ...
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The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development: Be
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...
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Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigrati...
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Both Sides of the Bullpen: Navajo Trade and Posts
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for ma...
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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" ...
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Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The ad exec who revolutionized the image of Black Americans in advertising Over a forty-year career, Chicagoan Tom Burrell changed the face of adve...
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Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915
HardcoverOriginal price $43.50 - Original price $43.50Original price $43.50$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Surprisingly, there existed a small population of southern blacks who experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. This b...
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A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...
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