Age of Betrayal
The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900
Written by Jack Beatty
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.95
Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of...
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The Big Squeeze
Tough Times for the American Worker
Written by Steven Greenhouse
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $16.00
Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book,
New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest...
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What I Saw at the Revolution
A Political Life in the Reagan Era
Written by Peggy Noonan
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $16.00
On the hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth comes the twentieth-anniversary edition of Peggy Noonan’s critically acclaimed bestseller What I Saw at the Revolution, for which she provides a new Preface that demonstrates this book’s timeless relevance. As a special assistant to the president, Noonan worked with Ronald Reagan—and with Vice...
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At Random
The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
Written by Bennett Cerf
Introduction by Christopher Cerf
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2002
Price: $15.95
“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of...
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Seducing the Boys Club
Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top
Written by Nina DiSesa
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $16.00
Fact #1: Forty years after the feminist revolution, fewer than 2 percent of Fortune 1000 CEOs are women.
Fact #2: The playing field is not level.
Fact #3: You need to get over this.
Chairman of the flagship office of the largest advertising agency network in the world, Nina DiSesa is a master communicator...
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Rescuing Prometheus
Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World
Written by Thomas P. Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2000
Price: $19.95
"A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --
The EconomistRescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management...
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