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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil WarHow America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They MadeThe Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar
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The Story of America: Essays on OriginsIn 'The Story of America', Harvard historian and 'New Yorker' staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories - from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type.
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern FinanceAcclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as 'brilliantly researched and written,' the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world