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  | | A Rabble of Dead Money(Reprint) The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939 by Charles R. Morris Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2018 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-5417-3609-2, ISBN: 1-5417-3609-5 "The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s America--with its boom in automobiles, electricity, credit lines, radio, and movies--certainly presaged a serious recession by the decade's end, but not a depression. The totality of the collapse shocked the nation, and its duration scarred generations to come. In this lucid and fast-pace ..." |
 | | The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown(Updated) Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2009 by Publicaffairs Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-58648-691-4, ISBN: 1-58648-691-8 "Previously published as The Trillion Dollar Meltdown Now fully updated with the latest financial developments, this is the bestselling book that briefly and brilliantly explains how we got into the economic mess that is the Credit Crunch. With the housing markets unravelling daily and distress signals flying throughout the rest of the economy, there is little doubt that we are facing a fierce recession. In crisp, gripping prose, Charles ..." |
 | | The Tycoons(Reprint) How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy by Charles R. Morris Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2006 by Holt Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8134-3, ISBN: 0-8050-8134-8 ""Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary." "The Christian Science Monitor" The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed ..." |
 | | The Dawn of Innovation(Reprint) The First American Industrial Revolution by Charles R. Morris, J. E. Morris Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2014 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-61039-357-7, ISBN: 1-61039-357-0 "In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, America went from being a largely rural economy, with little internal transportation infrastructure, to a fledgling industrial powerhouse--setting the stage for the vast fortunes that would be made in the golden age of American capitalism. In The Dawn of Innovation, Charles R. Morris vividly brings to life a time when three stupendous American innovations--universal male suffrage, the ..." |
 | | Ford Drag Team(1st Edition) The Story of the Drivers, Teams, Cars, and Races that led Ford During Drag Racing's Golden Era by Charles R. Morris Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2011 by Stance & Speed ISBN-13: 978-0-9830606-7-3, ISBN: 0-9830606-7-3 "Ford expert and veteran drag-racing author Charles R. Morris has written the definitive book covering the members of the Ford Drag Council and Drag Team of the 1960s, perhaps the most important decade in Ford performance history. In writing Ford Drag Team, Morris performed candid, one-on-one interviews with Ford drag racing legends like Phil Bonner, Hubert Platt, Ed Terry, Randy Payne, Al Joniec, the late Bill Lawton, Drag Team captain ..." |
 | | The Sages(Reprint) Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets by Charles R. Morris, No Noted Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2010 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-58648-817-8, ISBN: 1-58648-817-1 "The violent financial disruptions of the past several years have toppled nearly all of the lords of Wall Street, except for a few voices that warned of economic collapse. Among them, Warren Buffett, George Soros, and Paul Volcker. Though their experiences and styles vary, the careers of these three men are, to a large degree, stories of success in volatile times. With the benefit of his own deep understanding of markets and finance, Cha ..." |
 | | A Rabble of Dead Money(1st Edition) The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929–1939 by Charles R. Morris Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2017 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-61039-534-2, ISBN: 1-61039-534-4 "In this new book, Charles Morris tackles the white whale of economic history, the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, which has become a palimpsest of competing fads and trends in thinking about financial policy-making. During the past few decades, there has been a vast amount of high quality research into the causes and effects of the Crash and Great Depression, most of it by economists. But it is often marred by abstruse arguments ..." |
 | | The Sages Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets by Charles R. Morris Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-58648-752-2, ISBN: 1-58648-752-3 "A bestselling author examines the perspectives and principles of the three pillars of the financial world, as well as their judgements on the current crisis and the path to recovery. Throughout the violent financial disruptions of the past several years, three men have stood out as beacons of judgment and wisdom: Warren Buffett, George Soros, and Paul Volcker. Though their experiences and styles vary - Buffett is the canny stock market ..." |
 | | The Trillion Dollar Meltdown(1st Edition) Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-58648-563-4, ISBN: 1-58648-563-6 "We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. Arcane credit derivative bets are now well into the tens of trillions. According to Charles R. Morris, the astronomical leverage at investment banks and their hedge fund and private equity clients virtually guarantees massive disruption in global markets. The crash, when it comes, will have no firebreaks. A quarter century of free-market zealotry that ex ..." |
 | | The Surgeons(1st Edition) Life and Death in a Top Heart Center by Charles R. Morris Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06562-6, ISBN: 0-393-06562-6 "An over-the-shoulder look at a major heart surgery center, with gripping accounts from the OR to the boardroom. Americans now spend more money on hearts than on new passenger cars. To understand this remarkable trend, Charles R. Morris "embedded" himself with a surgical team at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Morris witnessed ..." |
 | | Cost of Good Intentions(1st Edition) New York City and the Liberal Experiment by Charles R. Morris Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1981 by Ww Norton & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-393-01339-9, ISBN: 0-393-01339-1 "Throughout the twentieth century New York City has been the center for the liberal impulse in America. In the 1960s New York moved squarely centerstage with expansive antipoverty programs, generous welfare and housing supports, a rapidly expanding university system, massive free health care--until the liberal government collapses under all this weight in the financial debacle of 1975.This book is about public policy making in New York d ..." |
 | | Comeback(1st Edition) America's New Economic Boom by Charles R. Morris, Gilbert Garcia Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2013 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-61039-336-2, ISBN: 1-61039-336-8 "Charles R. Morris’s The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback, Morris reveals that the United States is on the brink of a strong recovery that could last for twenty years or more.The great economic boom times in American history have come because of fortuitous discoveries. Natural resources (coal first, then oil) fueled vast eco ..." |
 | | The Surgeons(1st Edition) Life and Death in a Top Heart Center by Charles R. Morris Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33400-5, ISBN: 0-393-33400-7 ""Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying."âWall Street Journal Hailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a late-night against-the-clock "harvest run" to secure a precious transplantable organ, the heartbreaking story of a ..." |
 | | The Cost of Good Intentions New York City and the Liberal Experiment by Charles R. Morris Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 1980 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33175-2, ISBN: 0-393-33175-X "Throughout the twentieth century New York City has been the center for the liberal impulse in America. In the 1960s New York moved squarely centerstage with expansive antipoverty programs, generous welfare and housing supports, a rapidly expanding university system, massive free health care--until the liberal government collapses under all this weight in the financial debacle of 1975.This book is about public policy making in New York d ..." |
 | | The Dawn of Innovation(1st Edition) The First American Industrial Revolution by Charles R. Morris, J. E. Morris Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2012 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-58648-828-4, ISBN: 1-58648-828-7 "In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan walked the earth.But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform for that spectacular growth spurt was built in the first half of the century. By the 1820s, America was already the world’s mos ..." |
 | | Money, Greed, and Risk(1st Edition) Why Financial Crises and Crashes Happen by Charles R. Morris Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1999 by Crown Business ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-3173-0, ISBN: 0-8129-3173-4 "The world seems awash in financial crises. The Asian crisis of 1998, the near-demise of Long Term Capital Management, and the black hole of Russia are just a few of the most recent. Are they the result of greedy speculators, crony capitalism, or the warp speed of the forces of globalization? Can we send in the repairman and get things fixed through the legal and regulatory systems?Or are other causes at work that may be beyond our contr ..." |
 | | The Adventures of Al Joniec, Ford Drag Racer(1st Edition) A Story of Mustangs, Cobra Jets, Batcars, Airplanes, Dragons, Hairy Ones and 2,000 Worms by Charles R. Morris, Al Joniec Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 2018 by Stance & Speed ISBN-13: 978-0-9891149-9-8, ISBN: 0-9891149-9-6 "If you've ever wondered what it was really like to live through the golden years of racing, look no further than The Adventures of Al Joniec, the new book from drag racing historian Charlie Morris, as told by the Batman himself! Al Joniec put the 428 Cobra Jet on the map for Ford by winning his class and Super Stock Eliminator at the 1968 NHRA Winternationals, but he started out as a hot-rod loving kid in Philadelphia with a natural kna ..." |
 | | Ford Y-Block A Performance History by Charles R. Morris Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2015 by Stance & Speed ISBN-13: 978-0-9891149-2-9, ISBN: 0-9891149-2-9 "Here is a true accounting of the many racing accomplishments of one of the most maligned engine series ever to roll out of Detroit. The Y-Block Ford V-8, an engine that provided Ford with racing victories unrivaled by any another auto manufacturer of the time, became a victim of the internal and external politics of the auto industry and the bias of the automotive media. This book will document the wins recorded and records set by Y-Blo ..." |
 | | Thunderbolt(1st Edition) The True Story of Dick Brannan and Ford's Legendary 427 Fairlane Drag Racer by Charles R. Morris Paperback, 114 Pages, Published 2014 by Stance & Speed ISBN-13: 978-0-9852009-9-2, ISBN: 0-9852009-9-5 "Ford's Fairlane 427, affectionately known as the "Thunderbolt," effectively announced Ford's arrival as a serious player on the stock drag racing scene in 1964. Whereas Ford had enjoyed some success with far heavier full-sized cars and ambitious private competitors like Dick Brannan, with the Thunderbolt the Blue Oval brought Brannan into the fold and made a concerted effort to rule the quarter mile with a purpose-built, factory-support ..." |
 | | The Tycoons(1st Edition) How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy by Charles R. Morris Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2005 by Times Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7599-1, ISBN: 0-8050-7599-2 "Morris profiles the four big "robber barons" of post-Civil War America: Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate, characterized as annoying and cruel; John D. Rockefeller, the direct and understated visionary who founded Standard Oil; Jay Gould, perhaps the most vilified of them all, who made his fortune in railroads; and J. P. Morgan, who, groomed for the financial trade, became the world's banker. Although all four would probably have excelled ..." |
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