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Books like Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business by Fredric Dannen is about music industry, corruption and payola, corporate power. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · Business
Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.
Read the summary → - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe · History
Empire of Pain is Patrick Radden Keefe's account of the Sackler family — the dynasty behind Purdue Pharma and the opioid crisis — told across three generations.
Read the summary → - Liar's Poker
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Michael Lewis · Business
Liar's Poker is Michael Lewis's account of his years as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s, the decade when Wall Street stopped being a gentleman's club and became something closer to a casino.
Read the summary → - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis · Business
Moneyball is Michael Lewis's account of how Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, used statistical analysis to compete against teams with payrolls three times larger.
Read the summary → - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis · Economics
The Big Short is Michael Lewis's account of the 2008 financial crisis as seen through the eyes of a handful of contrarians who saw the collapse coming, bet against the American housing market, and were right.
Read the summary → - 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
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100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
Christopher Mayer · Business
Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.
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