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My 20 favourite business history books
If you're arriving from my Sunday Times column on the importance of business history, here's 20 of my favourite business history books.
Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes
Donald Barlett and James Steele
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?: Or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street
Fred Schwed
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
Edward Chancellor
The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos
Kenneth and William Hopper
Storming the Magic Kingdom
John Taylor
My Life with Tiny: Biography of Tiny Rowland
Richard Hall
The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California
Richard Rayner
How to Lose $100,000,000 and Other Valuable Advice
Royal Little
The Funny Money Game
Andrew Tobias
The Bold Riders
Trevor Sykes
Grinding It Out: The Making Of McDonald’s
Ray Kroc
The Magic of Mergers, the Saga of Mishulam Riklis
Oscar Schisgall
Slater Walker
Charles Raw
The Robber Barons
Matthew Josephson
Closing Balances: Business Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph
Martin Vander Weyer
Vesco: From Wall Street to Castro’s Cuba The Rise, Fall, and Exile of the King of White Collar Crime
Arthur Herzog
The Property Boom
Oliver Marroitt
The Book of Business Wisdom
Peter Krass
After I Was Sixty
Lord Thompson of Fleet