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The Times Cover
Author: Adam Nagourney |
Release Date: September 26, 2023
A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential threat of the internetFor over a centu...
The Times Cover
Author: William D. Cohan | Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Release Date: November 15, 2022
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New Yorker Best Books of 2022 • Financial Times Best Books of 2022 • The Economist Best Books of 2022The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York...
Author: Bartow J. Elmore | Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Release Date: October 12, 2021
An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with Germ...
Author: Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell | Narrator: Thérèse Plummer
Release Date: July 20, 2021
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • A FINANCIAL TIMES, FORTUNE, AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “The riveting, definitive account of WeWork, one of the wildest business stories of our time.”—Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist...
Author: Lauren Etter | Narrator: Gabra Zackman
Release Date: May 25, 2021
“Juul’s rise and fall teaches us something about greed, capitalism, policy failure and a particular cycle in American business that seems destined to repeat itself. . . . Deeply reported and illuminating.”—The New York Times B...
Author: Zachary Karabell | Narrator: Zachary Karabell
Release Date: May 18, 2021
A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and its rise to global powerConspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and no...
Author: Michael Moss | Narrator: Scott Brick
Release Date: March 02, 2021
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal) exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and...
Author: Seth Godin | Narrator: Seth Godin
Release Date: November 24, 2020
The cult classic that revolutionized marketing by teaching businesses that you’re either remarkable or invisible. Few authors have had the kind of lasting impact and global reach that Seth Godin has had. In a series of now-classic books that h...
Author: Jennifer Taub | Narrator: Eliza Foss
Release Date: September 29, 2020
"Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class."--The New York TimesHow ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and...
Author: Joel Bakan | Narrator: Kevin R. Free
Release Date: September 22, 2020
A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits...
Author: Jonathan Kaufman | Narrator: Joel Richards
Release Date: June 02, 2020
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe"Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate i...
Author: Liam Vaughan | Narrator: Liam Vaughan
Release Date: May 12, 2020
"[An] extraordinary tale"—Wall Street Journal"Compelling [and] engaging"—Financial Times"Magnificently detailed yet pacy...Think Trading Places meets Wall Street"—Sunday Times (UK)The riveting story of a trading prodi...