Business Biography: Books

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• The accidental zillionaire: demystifying Paul Allen 2003
  
  
• Andy Grove: the life and times of an American 2006
  
  
• aol.com: how Steve Case beat Bill Gates, nailed the netheads, and made millions in the war for the web 1998
  
  
• Bad boy Ballmer: the man who rules Microsoft 2002
  
  
• Barbie and Ruth: The story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her 2010
  
  
• Beyond the Model T: the other ventures of Henry Ford 1997
  
  
• Behind the wheel at Chrysler: the Iacocca legacy 1995
  
  
• Ben & Jerry's double-dip: lead with your values and make money, too 1997
  
  
• A big life in advertising 2002
  
  
• The billion dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the inside story of Black Entertainment Television 2004
  
  
• A biography of the "boss": Robert Winship Woodruff 1979
  
  
• Built from scratch : how a couple of regular guys grew the Home Depot from nothing to $30 billion -2000
  
  
• Cable cowboy: John Malone and the rise of the modern cable business 2002
  
  
• The cell game: Sam Waksal's fast money and false promises--and the fate of ImClone's cancer drug 2004
  
  
• Chairman of the board: a biography of Carl A. Gerstacker 2003
  
  
• Character counts: the creation and building of The Vanguard Group 2002
  
  
• The Charlton story: Earle Perry Charlton, 1863-1930 : one of the five founders of the F.W. Woolworth Company 2001
  
  
• Dillerland: The story of media mogul Barry Diller 2009
  
  
• Dossier: the secret history of Armand Hammer 1996
  
  
• Everyone else must fail: the unvarnished truth about Oracle and Larry Ellison 2003
  
  
• An eye for winners: how I built one of America's greatest direct-mail businesses (Vernon, Lillian) 1996
  
  
• Fallen giant : the amazing story of Hank Greenberg and the history of AIG 2006
  
  
• Fools rush in: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the unmaking of AOL Time Warner 2004
  
  
• Geeks & geezers: how era, values, and defining moments shape leaders 2002
  
  
• Giants of enterprise: seven business innovators and the empires they built 2001
  
  
• Hard drive: Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft empire 1992
  
  
• Henry J. Heinz: a biography 1936
  
  
• Her dream of dreams: the rise and triumph of Madam C.J. Walker 2003
  
  
• Hetty : the genius and madness of America's first female tycoon 2004
  
  
• iCon: Steve Jobs, the greatest second act in the history of business 2005
  
  
• Idea man: A memoir by the cofounder of Microsoft 2011
  
  
• In Sam we trust: the untold story of Sam Walton and how Wal-Mart is devouring America 1998
  
  
• Inside Larry and Sergey's brain 2009
  
  
• Jack: straight from the gut (Jack Welch) 2001
  
  
• Joseph P. Kennedy: the mogul, the mob, the statesman, and the making of an American myth 2003
  
  
• Julius Rosenwald : the man who built Sears, Roebuck and advanced the cause of Black education in the American South2006
  
  
• The road to someplace better: From the segregated South to Harvard Business School and beyond 2010
  
  
• The life and legend of Jay Gould 1986
  
  
• Longaberger: an American success story 2001
  
  
• Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way (Richard Branson) - HC252.5.B73 B73 1998
  
  
• Lumber and politics: the career of Mark E. Reed - HD9757.W2 F52
  
  
• Magna cum laude: how Frank Stronach became Canada's best-paid man 2006
  
  
• Making good: the inspiring story of a serial entrepreneur, maverick and restaurateur 2006
  
  
• Making people's music: Moe Asch and Folkways records 1998
  
  
• The man who owns the news: Inside the secret world of Rupert Murdoch 2010
  
  
• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture 2003
  
  
• Martha Inc.: the incredible story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia 2002
  
  
• Martha Matilda Harper and the American dream: how one woman changed the face of modern business 2000
  
  
• The maverick and his machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the making of IBM 2003
  
  
• Mike Bloomberg: Money, power, politics  2009
  
  
• The millionaire dropout 1966
  
  
• On her own ground: the life and times of Madam C.J. Walker 2001
  
  
• On our own terms: portraits of women business leaders 1995
  
  
• The Oracle of Oracle: the story of volatile CEO Larry Ellison and the strategies behind his company's phenomenal success 2002
  
  
• Out of his head, the sound of Phil Spector 1972
  
  
• Palace car prince: a biography of George Mortimer Pullman 1992
  
  
• The people's tycoon: Henry Ford and the American century 2005
  
  
• Perfect enough: Carly Fiorina and the reinvention of Hewlett-Packard 2003
  
  
• Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time 1997
  
  
• Prince of the magic kingdom: Michael Eisner and the re-making of Disney 1991
  
  
• R. E. Olds, auto industry pioneer 1977
  
  
• Random excess: the wild ride of Michael Cowpland and Corel 1998
  
  
• Robber baron: the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes 2006
  
  
• Sharing the wealth: my story (Alex Spanos) 2002
  
  
• Sloan rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors 2002
  
  
• Soros: the life and times of a Messianic billionaire 2002
  
  
• A sportsman's life: how I built Orvis by mixing business and sport 2002
  
  
• Steinbrenner! 1982
  
  
• Swimming across: a memoir 2001
  
  
• A very public offering: a rebel's story of business excess, success, and reckoning (Stephan Paternot) 2001
  
  
• The Wal-Mart decade: how a generation of leaders turned Sam Walton's legacy into the world's #1 company 2003
  
  
• War paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden : their lives, their times, their rivalry 2003
  
  
• The Watson dynasty: the fiery reign and troubled legacy of IBM's founding father and son 2003
  
  
• Who says elephants can't dance?: inside IBM's historic turnaround 2002
  
  
• Work in progress (Michael Eisner ) 1998