Biography

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• The Rose of Soweto Celebrated at Launch of Boxer’s Bio

  
  Penguin SA — Authority: 129
  It was a gala affair as guests gathered at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg on Tuesday, for the launch of Rose of Soweto , the biography of boxer Dingaan Thobela. Held at the Palace’s night club venue, 64 @ The Palace, boxing fans, book lovers and sportsmen mingled among the tables and filled out the VIP area. ...
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• Sam Spiegel: The Incredible Life and Times of Hollywood’s Most Iconoclastic Producer, the Miracle Worker Who Went from Penniless Refugee to Showbiz Legend, and Made Possible The African Queen, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Law

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Prior to this meticulously researched biography, legendary producer Sam Spiegel had loomed large in countless Hollywood memoirs, but was rarely the subject of close examination. Praiseworthy for negotiating a maze of apocryphal stories and unverified details, Sam Spiegel solves many of the mysteries ...
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• Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett, 2006 Literary Edition: Andrew Kilpatrick

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Review “This is the Buffett ‘bible’…It provides the definitve story of his career.” — London Daily Telegraph“This is the Buffett ‘bible’…It provides the definitve story of his career.” –London Daily Telegraph The theme of this fully revised biography about Warren ...
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• Wilhelm Ropke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist (Library of Modern Thinkers): John Zmirak

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Review “John Zmirak’s Wilhem Röpke…rises toward literature.” — National Review, November 19, 2001 Wilhelm Röpke is probably the most unjustly neglected economist and social critic of the twentieth century. Exiled by Hitler’s regime, Röpke was a passionate critic of socialism ...
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• To Russia With Fries: My Journey from Chicago’s South Side to Moscow’s Red Square - Having Fun Along the Way: George Cohon, David Macfarlane

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Decades before the collapse of the Soviet Union opened the floodgates to waves of Western entrepreneurs, an eager executive was in active negotiations with Brezhnev-era officials to give his corporation a presence in Soviet Russia. George Cohon, the senior chairman of ...
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• Crossing the Road to Entrepreneurship: Bert L. Wolstein

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews College students and professionals already in the workforce are flooding university classrooms, looking for information on how to build their own businesses rather than going the traditional route of working for someone else. However, ask successful business owners and they’ll say that there is ...
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• First A Dream: Jim Clayton, Bill Retherford

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Review ” . . . a wonderful work that is both entertaining and insightful . . . there is something for everyone . . . ” — Dr. Bill Frist, U.S. Senator“… a stimulating book that offers deep insight and practical business lessons . . . [...]
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• Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery: Ingrid Schaffner, Lisa Jacobs

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Julien Levy (1906-1981) was one of the most influential art dealers of the twentieth century. The Julien Levy Gallery, which opened in New York in 1931 and closed in 1949, played an essential role in the shift of the cultural avant-garde from Paris to New York. It was the first American [...]
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• Longaberger: An American Success Story: Dave Longaberger

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Although many businesspeople may not yet be familiar with Dave Longaberger and the hugely successful basket company that bears his name, they probably should be. The story of the man and his enterprise, as told in Longaberger: An American Success Story, is as informative and inspiring as [...]
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• No Such Thing as Over-Exposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump: Robert Slater

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews To read the latest Trump tale is to be reminded of writer Fran Lebowitz’ comment that there are only two social classes in America–the celebrities and the audience. Business biographer Robert Slater, who spent 100 hours with Donald Trump, provides an intriguing link between the two in No Such ...
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• The Playboy Interviews: Movers And Shakers: Stephen Randall

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Power. Control. Influence. In every business, in every area of professional achievement, only a handful of people have taken control of their industry or marketplace. With vision, determination and passion, these people have bent the world to their will. Some were millionaires from birth, others ...
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• The Marshall Fields: The Evolution of an American Business Dynasty: Axel Madsen

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Review Unless you knew better, you’d probably think that earning $40 million a year a century ago was a good thing. But you’d be mistaken, at least in the case of Marshall Field, according to Axel Madsen.In “The Marshall Fields,” Mr. Madsen offers up a portrait [...]
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• On bartering…

  
  Jerrychicken - The Diary — Authority: 129
  I have only deliberately bartered for something once.I have bartered for many things accidently, like when you are casually browsing for something and a sales person approaches, engages you in conversation, and you stand there talking aimlessly whilst thinking “How the hell do I get rid of him now”, you offer your ...
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• Media Man: Ted Turner’s Improbable Empire (Enterprise): Ken Auletta

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Auletta wrote an excellent New Yorker profile of media mogul Turner in 2001, but this expanded look at the complex figure lacks depth. Auletta describes how Turner, an “obstreperous” Southerner, changed television by turning a tiny Atlanta UHF station into a national ...
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• Torpedoed: An American Businessman’s True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Imprisonment in Russia, and the Battle to: Tom Shactman, Edmond D. Pope

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Traveling in the former Soviet Union as a private contractor buying declassified technology that made its way from the military into Russia’s newly freed consumer markets Pope trips into the nightmarish world of post-Cold War Russia. Written with Tom Shactman (The ...
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• David Buick’s Marvelous Motorcar: The Men and the Automobile That Launched General Motors: Lawrence R. Gustin

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews The storied Buick Motor Company, which formed the foundation for General Motors, "had the management of stars," said legendary GM executive Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Indeed, early Buick leaders included the charismatic Billy Durant, founder of GM; Charles Nash, a founder of what became American Motors; ...
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• The Onassis Women: Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Tales of Jackie and Maria from a personal secretary of Onassis.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. At seventeen, Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos began a job at Olympic Airways that would change her life. She worked in the office of the most renowned man [...]
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• Spag : An American Business Legend: Elsa B. Tivnan, Catherine Nickerson

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Way before Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target and Sam’s Club, there was Spags, the original discount store and hub-of-the-universe to frugal-minded New England Yankees looking for a bargain. Order Spag : An American Business Legend: Elsa B. Tivnan, Catherine Nickerson form Amazon.
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• Tina and Harry Come to America: Tina Brown, Harry Evans, and the Uses of Power: Judy Bachrach

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly The rise and downward slide of magazine editor Tina Brown (Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Talk) and husband, Harry Evans (former editor of the London Sunday Times and, later, president of Random House), goes under the microscope in Tina and Harry Come to America: [...]
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• Commanding the Waterways: The Story of Sea Ray: Jeffrey L. Rodengen

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews As Sea Ray approaches its 50th anniversary, the commitment to quality and innovation that founder C. N. Ray instilled in the company decades ago remains stronger than ever. Sea Ray s unique philosophy, which centers on design excellence and dealer relationships, has helped the company thrive since ...
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