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His first, the house of morgan, won the national book award. Howard zinn august 24, 1922 january 27, 2010 was an american historian, playwright, and socialist thinker. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 560 pages and is. Barry eichengreen, author of the european economy since 1945 this is quite simply the best empirical investigation of financial crises ever published. The battle of bretton woods council on foreign relations. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 544 pages and is available in hardcover format. Here are time s picks for the best nonfiction books of 2018, from zora neale hurstons barracoon to tara westovers educated. One of the motley fools 10 great books on economic history. From the pulitzer prizewinning bestselling author of alexander hamilton, the inspiration for the hit broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the warburgs, one of the great germanjewish banking families of the twentieth century. Robert macfarlane is the author of mountains of the mind, the wild places, the old ways, landmarks, and the lost words, cocreated with jackie morris. Financial times national book award longlist named one of the best books of. The book is a pageturner and an essential addition to any investors andor historians library.
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