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A Life of George Westinghouse
By Henry G. Prout

A Not-So-Tender Offer: An Insider's Look at Mergers and Their Consequences
By Isadore Barmash

A Response to Industrialism: Liberal Businessmen and the Evolving Spectrum of Capitalist Reform, 1886-1960
By Kim McQuaid

American Commercial Banking: A History 
By Benjamin J. Klebaner

American Express: The People Who Built the Great Financial Empire 
By Peter Z. Grossman

An Entrepreneurial History of the United States
By Gerald Gunderson

Business and Capitalism: An Introduction to Business History
By N.S.B. Gras

Computer Wars: The Post IBM World
By Charles H. Ferguson and Charles R. Morris

Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work
By Hebert N. Casson

Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken
By Robert Sobel

E. H. Harriman: Master Railroader
By Lloyd J. Mercer

E. H. Harriman: Railroad Czar
By George Frost Kennan

Henry Ford: The Wayward Capitalist
By Carol Gelderman

Fashion, Retailing and a Bygone Era: Inside Women's Wear Daily - A Look Back 
By Isadore Barmash, Edward Gold, Marvin Klapper, Sandy Parker, Sidney Rutberg, Mort Sheinman, and Stanley Siegelman

For the Good of the Company: The History of the McCrory Corporation
By Isadore Barmash

From Industry to Alchemy: Burgmaster, A Machine Tool Company
By Max Holland

George Eastman: Founder of Kodak and the Photography Business
By Carl W. Ackerman

Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines
By Aaron Bernstein

Inside Wall Street
By Robert Sobel

Investing in Junk Bonds: Inside the High Yield Debt Market
By Edward I. Altman and Scott Nammacher

Jacob Fugger the Rich: Merchant and Banker of Augsburg, 1459-1525
By Jacob Streider

King Cotton and His Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925
By Harold D. Woodman

Kingdom: The Story of the Hunt Family of Texas
By Jerome Tuccille 

Ling: The Rise, Fall, and Return of a Texas Titan
By Stanley H. Brown 

Macy's for Sale
By Isadore Barmash

Made in the USA: The History of American Business
By Thomas V. DiBacco

Merchants of Debt: Kkr and the Mortgaging of American Business
By George Anders

Megamergers: Corporate America's Billion-Dollar Takeovers
By Kenneth M. Davidson

Merger: The Exclusive Inside Story of the Bendix-Martin Marietta Takeover War
By Peter F. Hartz

Net Net: A Novel about the Discount Store Game
By Isadore Barmash

Oil & Honor: The Texaco-Pennzoil Wars; Inside the $11 Billion Battle for Getty Oil
By Thomas Petzinger Jr. 

Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation
By Alfred DuPont Chandler

Robert Morris: The Financier and the Finances of the American Revolution
By William Graham Sumner

Rupert Murdoch: Creator of a Worldwide Media Empire
By Jerome Tuccille

Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise
By Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market
By Robert Sobel

The Businessman in American Literature
By Emily Stipes Watts 

The Chief Executives
By Isadore Barmash

The Curbstone Brokers: The Origins of the American Stock Exchange
By Robert Sobel

The Failure of the Franklin National Bank: Challenge to the International Banking System
By Joan Edelman Spero

The Fallen Colossus
By Robert Sobel

The General Mills/Parker Brothers Merger: Playing by Different Rules
By Ellen Wojahn

The ITT Wars: An Insider's View of Hostile Takeovers
By Rand V. Araskog

The Luckiest Guy in the World
By Boone Pickens

The Money Machine: How KKR Manufactured Power and Profits
By Sarah Bartlett

The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America 1770-1970
By Robert Sobel

The Money Wars: The Rise & Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980s
By Roy C. Smith

The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI
By Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne

The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank: 1397-1494
By Raymond A. de Roover

The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings
By Robert Sobel

The Rise of Today's Rich and Super-Rich
By Roy C. Smith

The Self-Made Man: Stress and Success American Style
By Isadore Barmash

The Story of Bank of America: Biography of a Bank
By Marquis James and Bessie R. James

The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project
By Robert W. de Roos

The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America
By Moira Johnston

The Wreck of the Penn Central
By Joseph R. Daughen

Thomas Watson, Sr.: IBM and the Computer Revolution
By Robert Sobel

Thrifts Under Siege: Restoring Order to American Banking
By R. Dan Brumbaugh

Too Big
By Morris L. Ernst

Too Big to Fail: Olympia & York: The Story Behind the Headlines
By Walter Stewart

Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron
By Jerome Tuccille

Wildcatters: A Story of Texans, Oil, and Money
By Sally Helgesen

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