American Economic History

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    • Auteur(s): A'Lelia Bundles
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 1 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-15
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and expanding the local black YMCA, but she couldn't have done that if she weren't the first female self-made millionaire and one of the most successful African American business owners ever....

    Prix courant: 10,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Inner History of the New America
    • Auteur(s): George Packer
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
    • Durée: 18 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way....

    Prix courant: 32,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission
    • Auteur(s): Herb Childress
    • Narrateur(s): Edward Bauer
    • Durée: 5 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car...to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Gruber, Simon Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
    • Durée: 9 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
    • Auteur(s): Gregory Makoff, Lee C. Buchheit - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Durée: 12 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Default is the riveting story of Argentina's sovereign debt drama, which reveals the obscure inner workings of sovereign debt restructuring. This detailed case study describes the intense fight over the role of the IMF in Argentina's 2005 debt restructuring.

    Prix courant: 26,30$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): Tyler Cowen
    • Narrateur(s): Walter Dixon
    • Durée: 7 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. The problem is that Americans today have broken from this tradition....

    Prix courant: 31,16$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
    • Auteur(s): David Cay Johnston
    • Narrateur(s): David Cay Johnston
    • Durée: 6 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-01-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The best-selling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new expose....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
    • Auteur(s): Maury Klein
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Crisden
    • Durée: 11 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Meier
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 38 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-12-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An “epic and intimate” (David M. Kennedy) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century....

    Prix courant: 46,62$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Guaranteed Employment Drives Lincoln Electric and How It Can Help American Business
    • Auteur(s): Frank Koller
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Davidson
    • Durée: 9 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • While factories across the Midwest shutter their doors, Cleveland-based manufacturer Lincoln Electric has thrived for more than a century....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
    • Auteur(s): Justin Farrell
    • Narrateur(s): John Chancer
    • Durée: 12 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face....

    Prix courant: 18,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government
    • Auteur(s): Robert G. Kaiser
    • Narrateur(s): Erik Synnestvedt
    • Durée: 16 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This is a timely and tremendously important book that finally explains how Washington really works today and why it works so badly....

    Prix courant: 23,12$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Hedrick Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 16 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled....

    Prix courant: 44,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
    • Auteur(s): Rana Foroohar
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Fulginiti
    • Durée: 13 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Through colorful stories of both “Takers”, those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers”, businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
    • Auteur(s): Justene Hill Edwards
    • Narrateur(s): Diana Blue
    • Durée: 10 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Historian Justene Hill Edwards unearths a major turning point in American history in this comprehensive account of the Freedman's Bank and its depositors.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • Auteur(s): Ben Austen
    • Narrateur(s): Ron Butler
    • Durée: 13 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

    Prix courant: 34,95$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
    • Auteur(s): David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 8 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and new labor history, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the US....

    Prix courant: 20,20$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • Auteur(s): Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrateur(s): Karen White
    • Durée: 21 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
    • Auteur(s): Glory M. Liu
    • Narrateur(s): Kate Udall
    • Durée: 12 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and weaponized Smith's ideas....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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