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Jack Beatty is a senior editor of The Atlantic and news analyst for On Point, the national NPR news and public affairs program. His book The Rascal King on legendary Boston mayor James Michael Curley won an American Book Award, was shortlisted for the NBCC award, and was one of USA Today's 10 Best Books of the Year. He was the editor of Colossus, a book on corporations, which was named one of the 10 Best Business Books of the Year by Business Week. He was a Poynter Fellow at Yale, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Alfred P. Sloan...

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Age of Betrayal
Written by Jack Beatty

Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage | Business & Economics - Corporate History; Business & Economics - Economic History
978-1-4000-3242-6 (1-4000-3242-3)

April 8, 2008 | $22.50

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Age of Betrayal
Written by Jack Beatty

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400032426
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Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of...

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Age of Betrayal
Written by Jack Beatty

eBook | pages | Vintage | History - United States - 19th Century
978-0-307-26724-5 (0-307-26724-5)

April 10, 2007 | $15.99

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Age of Betrayal
Written by Jack Beatty

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307267245
Our Price: $15.99


Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of...

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Colossus
Edited by Jack Beatty

eBook | 528 pages | Crown Business | Business & Economics - Finance
978-0-7679-0957-0 (0-7679-0957-7)

March 5, 2002 | $17.99

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Colossus
Edited by Jack Beatty

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780767909570
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Big business has been the lever of big change over time in American life, change in economy, society, politics, and the envelope of existence--in work, mores, language, consciousness, and the pace and bite of time. Such is the pattern revealed by this historical mosaic.
--From the Preface

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The World According to Peter Drucker
Written by Jack Beatty

Trade Paperback | 220 pages | Broadway | Science
978-0-7679-0302-8 (0-7679-0302-1)

December 29, 1998 | $17.00

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The World According to Peter Drucker
Written by Jack Beatty

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780767903028
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Peter Drucker is arguably the most influential architect of today's corporate society. Yet no concise overview of his life and work has ever appeared--until now. Creating a Drucker primer as much as a biography, Jack Beatty has distilled the essence of Drucker's beliefs and strategies into one engaging volume. Spanning Drucker's...


              
              



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