Biography & History

Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person acco...

“A hair-raising account of a Barbie Dreamhouse-size Jarndyce and Jarndyce.”―Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This provocative work spotlights the legal ba...

The First Biography In Over Thirty Years Of Condé Nast, The Pioneering Publisher Of Vogue And Vanity Fair And Main Rival To Media Magnate William Randolph...

This is a tale about big business, an imploding dynasty, a mogul at war, and a deal that sums up an era of change. The main character, rocked by feuding fa...

This Is The First Post-mortem, Unauthorized Insight Into Merv Griffin, A Failed Singer And Unsuccessful Actor Who Unexpectedly Rewrote The Rules Of America'...

In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-–2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia P. Dawson tell the story of Cleveland-Cliffs, th...

Elon Musk, The Entrepreneur And Innovator Behind Spacex, Tesla, And Solarcity, Sold One Of His Internet Companies, Paypal, For $1.5 Billion. Ashlee Vance Ca...

Publisher Fact Sheet In The Vein Of Business Bestsellers Like Blur & Cluetrain Manifesto, This Book By New York/london-based Consultant Tom Demarco Is A...

What Happens When A Young Wall Street Investment Banker Spends A Small Fortune To Have Lunch With Warren Buffett? He Becomes A Real Value Investor. In This ...

Alex Doulis, a Greek-Canadian geologist and financial legend, came to Bay Street from Vancouver in the 1970s. Though he never went astray once in the desert...

An extension of Prof. Landes' chapter in Volume VI of the Cambridge Economic History of Europe includes a full-scale analysis of modern industrial Europe fr...

Finalist for the National Business Book Award National Bestseller In Bet On Me, leading entrepreneur Annette Verschuren lays out her surprising and inspiri...

In Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers, Rafael Varón Gabai breaks fresh ground in his reconstruction of the Pizarros’ conquest as a new form of busi...

From The Author Of The Bestselling Biographies Of Benjamin Franklin And Albert Einstein, This Is The Exclusive Biography Of Steve Jobs. Based On More Than F...