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Summary: Brahmin Capitalism explores the surprisingly dynamic role of established wealth in the rise of modern capitalism in the United States. Far from declining in prosperity and influence, elite Bostonians of illustrious lineage - the quintessential old money families on the American scene - successfully reinvented themselves. Better known as social reformers, philanthropists, and men of letters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 MAGBrown, Julie K.
Summary: "Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BROLu, Yefei
Summary: A gift to Buffett followers who have long sought a pattern to the investor's success, "Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett" presents the most detailed analysis to date of Buffet's long-term investment portfolio. Yefei Lu, an experienced investor, starts with Buffett's interest in the Sanborn Map Company in 1958 and tracks nineteen more of his major investments in companies like See's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Business School Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 LUHite, Larry
Summary: "The empowering story of Larry Hite's unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world-with critical insights and lessons you can take to the bank In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student-and how he went on to found and run Mint Investment Management...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.64 HITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Money HiteSteinmetz, Greg
Summary: "This is a spry biography of Gilded Age financier Jay Gould, who pioneered the business model of the Wall Street shark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOULD, JAY STEZuckerman, Gregory
Summary: Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. His track record bests those of legendary investors including Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, and George Soros. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. Wall Street insiders have long craved a view into Simons's singular mind, as well as the definitive account of how his secretive hedge fund, Renaissance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Filmmaker Moore examines the history of free-market capitalism in post-Reagan America and questions its efficacy as the basis for the nation's economy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPBrowder, Bill
Summary: "When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWDER, BILL BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BROWDER BROStandiford, Les.
Summary: Examines the relationship between two of the founding fathers of American industry--Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick--and the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892, which led to the dissolution of their partnership.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US StandifordStrouse, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORGAN, J.P. STRSummary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MeChafkin, Max
Summary: "A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s,no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THIEL, PETER CHAGilder, George F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1984
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Summary: Who was Jeffrey Epstein? A Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist unearths never-before-reported details in the most comprehensive account yet of the disgraced financier's life, death, and criminal web, including the role of Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.153 LEVBrowder, Bill
Summary: "A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWDER, BILL BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BROWDER BROBuffett, Warren.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 HAGJosephson, Matthew
Contents: Part one. The national scene: the national character -- What the young men dream -- Of empire-builders -- The winning of the west -- Two captains of industry -- The fight for Erie -- Grandeurs and miseries of empire-building -- Part two. Rising from the ruins -- Mephistopheles -- Caesar Borgia in California -- Giants of the northwest -- Certain industrialists arose -- Morgan and the railways --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.0973 JODJobb, Dean
Summary: "It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties ... Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people ... to invest as much as $30 million--upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama ... When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KORETZ, LEO ROBJobb, Dean
Summary: It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. As Model Ts rumbled down Michigan Avenue, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination. Bedecked partygoers thronged to the Drake Hotel's opulent banquet rooms, corrupt politicians held court in thriving speakeasies, and the frenzy of stock market...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.6 JobbLaurens, Stephanie
Summary: An inventor's daughter falls in love with an investor who has bet his fortune on the success of her father's last design.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAUHiltzik, Michael A.
Summary: "From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0973 HILMcDonald, Duff.
Summary: Offers an in-depth biography of Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, written with the full blessing of the man known to all as the Savior of Wall St.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIMON, JAMIE MCDSchulman, Daniel
Summary: "The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants--with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman--who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023