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Books like Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
The best books like Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business are Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, and Liar's Poker. 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 12 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.
A kindred business read.
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.
A kindred business read.
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.
A kindred business read.
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.
A kindred business read.
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.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Fast Food Nation
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Eric Schlosser · Science
Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation is one of the most consequential pieces of American investigative journalism of the early twenty-first century.
Both dig into corporate power.
Read the summary → - Goliath
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Matt Stoller · Economics
Goliath is Matt Stoller's history of monopoly power in America, arguing that the concentration of corporate power in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is not a novel development but a return to a pattern that Americans once recognized as a fundamental threat to democratic governance — and successfully resisted through antitrust law.
Both dig into corporate power.
Read the summary → - How Music Works
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David Byrne · History
David Byrne's central provocation in How Music Works is that music doesn't emerge from individual genius and then find a context — the context shapes and creates the music.
Both dig into music industry.
Read the summary → - Neuromancer
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William Gibson · Science fiction
Case is a washed-up computer hacker living in the sprawl of near-future Chiba City, Japan.
Both dig into corporate power.
Read the summary → - Oryx and Crake
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Margaret Atwood · Science fiction
Snowman — formerly Jimmy — may be the last human being alive.
Both dig into corporate power.
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.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
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7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer · Business
7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.
A kindred business read.
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Books like Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business: quick answers
What are the best books like Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business?
The best books like Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business by Fredric Dannen are Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business, such as music industry, corruption and payola, corporate power.
What should I read after Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business?
A natural next read after Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business is Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. A kindred business read. Other strong choices are Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis.
What books are similar to Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business by Fredric Dannen?
Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business centers on music industry, corruption and payola, corporate power. Books with a similar feel include Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
