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740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building, by Michael Gross
The Age of Turbulence, by Alan Greenspan
The Almanac of the Unelected, ed. Suzanne Struglinski
America, Inc: Who Owns and Operates the United States, by Morton Mintz & Jerry S. Cohen
America’s Political Dynasties, by Stephen Hess
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, by Kevin Phillips
The Architect: Karl Rove and the Dream of Absolute Power, by James Moore and Wayne Slater
The Bankers: The Next Generation, by Martin Mayer
Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM, by Paul Carroll
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, by Jeremy Scahill
Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley, by Patricia Beard
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, by Roger Lowenstein
The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty, by Peter Schweizer and Rochelle Schweizer
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance, by Michael Korda
Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin, by James O’Shea and Charles Madigan
The Dark Side, by Jane Mayer
The Death of the Banker, by Ron Chernow
Den of Thieves, by James B. Stewart
Detroit’s Powers & Personalities, by Tim Kiska
Dirty Money, by Mark Potts, Nicholas Kochan and Robert Whittington
Ford: The Men and the Machine, by Robert Lacey
The Fords: An American Epic, by Hugo Vickers
Gladys: Duchess of Marlborough, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
Gotti: Rise and Fall, by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain
Great Fortune : The Epic of Rockefeller Center, by Daniel Okrent
Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington, by Peter H. Stone
The House: The History of the House of Representatives, by Robert V. Remini
House of Hilton: From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege, by Jerry Oppenheimer
The House of Getty, by Russell Miller
The House of Morgan, by Ron Chernow
The Kennedy Men: Three Generations of Sex, Scandal and Secrets, by Nellie Bly
The Kennedys, by Peter Collier And David Horowitz
King of the Club, by Charles Gasparino
The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story, by Frances Kiernan
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., by William D. Cohan
Linked, by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright
Mafia: The Government’s Secret File on Organized Crime, U.S. Treasury
Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom, by Bob Woodward
Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine
Memoirs, by David Rockefeller
Money and Class in America, by Lewis H. Lapham
The Money Culture, by Michael Lewis
The Money Lords, by Matthew Josephson
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin
Obama: From Promise to Power, by David Mendell
Our Crowd, by Stephen Birmingham
Party of the Century, by Deborah Davis
Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power, by John Harwood & Gerald F. Seib
The Predators’ Ball, by Connie Bruck
Pull: Networking and Success Since Benjamin Franklin, by Pamela Walker Laird
The Partners: Inside America’s Most Powerful Law Firms, by James B. Stewart
Peggy: The Wayward Guggenheim, by Jacqueline Bograd Weld
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath, by Kevin P. Phillips
Pulitzer, by W.A. Swanberg
The Rich Are Different, ed. Jon Winokur
The Robber Barons, by Matthew Josephson
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait, by Frederick Morton
Running the World, by David Rothkopf
The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street, by John Steele Gordon
Secret Societies of America’s Elite, by Steven Sora
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, by William Greider
Secrets of the Tomb, by Alexandra Robbins
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, by Duncan J. Watts
Social Register
Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, by Michael T. Kaufman
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr., by Ron Chernow
Trammell Crow: Master Builder, by Robert Sobel
Trump: The Deals and the Downfall, by Wayne Barrett
Under God: Religion and American Politics, by Garry Wills
Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty, by Peter Hernon & Terry Ganey
The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age, by Louis Auchincloss
The Very Rich: A History of Wealth, by Joseph J. Thorndike Jr.
The Warburgs, by Ron Chernow

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