18 books like Private Empire

What to read after Private Empire — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition

Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition Karen Berman & Joe Knight · 2013 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The book Inc. magazine calls one of "the best, clearest guides to the numbers" on the market.Inc. magazine calls it one of "the best, clearest guides to the numbers" on the market. Readers agree, saying it's exactly "what I need to know" and calling it a "must-read" for decision makers without expertise in finance.Since its release in 2006, Financial Intelligence has become a favorite among… Shares Corporations

The Taking of Getty Oil

The Taking of Getty Oil Steve Coll · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 532p · ≈ 17h · Moderate xiii, 531 pages ; 21 cm Shares Petroleum industry and trade, Corporations

Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials

Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials Stuart A. McCrary · 2010 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Corporations with this book.

The Reckoning

The Reckoning David Halberstam · 1986 · ★ 4.4 · 786p · ≈ 26h · Challenging Compares and contrasts two companies, Ford and Nissan, from the founders and owners right down to the men on the assembly line. Shares Petroleum industry and trade

Black Water Rising Attica Locke · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. His most promising client is a low-rent call girl and he runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy strip mall. But he's long since made peace with not living… Shares Petroleum industry and trade, Corporations

The Frackers

The Frackers Gregory Zuckerman · 2013 · ★ 4.5 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "The riveting, untold story of the men who are transforming global energy. In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world's fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book… Shares Petroleum industry and trade

When the Wolves Bite

When the Wolves Bite Scott Wapner · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "With their unprecedented amounts of capital and their savvy understanding of business, activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman have the ability to move markets and change the fortunes of investors, workers, and even large companies with the flick of a wrist. But what happens when they run into the one thing in business they can't control: each other? On January 25, 2013, Scott Wapner, the… Shares Corporations

A philosophy of political myth Chiara Bottici · 2007 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this book, Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth. Bottici demonstrates that myth is a process, one of continuous work on a basic narrative pattern that responds to a need for significance. Human beings need meaning in order to master the world they live in, but they also need significance in order to live in a world that is less indifferent to them. This… Shares Political aspects

The power book Rose Herceg · 2013 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Power is a loaded word. It shouldn't be. It's the currency we trade in today and we all need it. Knowing how it works, how to get to it and how to use it can make life much easier. From power in relationships to power in families to power in society to power in the workplace, The Power Book will teach you how to be a more powerful person and how to use that power wisely. Shares Power

Shaping History Molly Andrews · 2007 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Political aspects with this book.

How to form your own California corporation Anthony Mancuso · 1977 · 147p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Corporations with this book.

Barbarians at the Gate

Barbarians at the Gate Bryan Burrough & John Helyar · 1920 · ★ 4.5 · 549p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and pulicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms, giving… Shares Corporations

The Appeal John Grisham · 2008 · ★ 3.7 · 488p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Carl Trudeau is very unhappy that the Mississippi court system has ruled against his chemical company. His company was accused of dumping toxic waste into the water supply of a small town thus causing a large outbreak of cancer in the community. He proceeds to buy a seat on the Supreme Court by recruiting, manipulating and financing a candidate who he hopes will be sympathtic to his company… Shares Corporations

Financial Valuation James R. Hitchner · 2003 · 1308p · ≈ 43h · Moderate Praise for Financial Valuation "This Second Edition addresses virtually all of the recent hot topics in business valuation, and there are many of them since the first edition. Most chapters are updated with new material, including, especially, the Duff & Phelps Risk Premium Report as an alternative to Ibbotson's risk premium data. As with the first edition, the authors are very well-known… Shares Corporations

Chocolate Wars

Chocolate Wars Deborah Cadbury · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In the early nineteenth century Richard Cadbury sent his son, John, to London to study a new and exotic commodity: cocoa. Within a generation, John's sons had created a chocolate company to rival the great English firms of Rowntree and Fry. All three firms were Quaker family enterprises, and their business aims were infused with religious idealism. As chocolate companies raced to compete around… Shares Corporations

The Constant Gardener John le Carré · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 557p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career… Shares Corporations

Autobiography and Black identity politics Kenneth Mostern · 1999 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Why has autobiography been central to African-American political speech throughout the twentieth century? What is it about the racialization process that persistently places African-Americans in the position of speaking from personal experience? In Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative… Shares Political aspects

How to be rich J. Paul Getty · 1965 · ★ 5.0 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate J. Paul Getty draws on his own experiences of becoming the worlds first generally recognized billionaire to explain money and economics. He does so in a way that is very readable even to the novice. He is surprisingly down to earth and rather philosophical in his discussion of what wealth is, what it means to have wealth and as the title itself states "How to be rich". J. Paul explains in… Shares Petroleum industry and trade

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