Financial Crimes and Scandals

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 4.41 avg rating — 276,384 ratings
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,836 ratings
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 4.30 avg rating — 168,104 ratings
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron 4.22 avg rating — 27,094 ratings
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco 4.28 avg rating — 42,420 ratings
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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican 3.98 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
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The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History
The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History 4.07 avg rating — 6,285 ratings
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Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite 3.74 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Den of Thieves
Den of Thieves 4.16 avg rating — 14,655 ratings
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The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon
The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management 4.20 avg rating — 30,804 ratings
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The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football 4.05 avg rating — 4,257 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor 4.01 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld 3.64 avg rating — 4,955 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 4.04 avg rating — 44,513 ratings
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The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History
The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History 4.07 avg rating — 6,285 ratings
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Wasters
Wasters
by: Ross
3.54 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Informant
The Informant 3.97 avg rating — 4,530 ratings
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Christopher Skase: Beyond the mirage
Christopher Skase: Beyond the mirage
by: Tom Prior
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History 4.13 avg rating — 683 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
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The Bankers: How The Banks Ruined The Irish Economy
The Bankers: How The Banks Ruined The Irish Economy 3.64 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Other People's Money: The Complete Story of the Extraordinary Collapse of Hih
Other People's Money: The Complete Story of the Extraordinary Collapse of Hih liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Ansett: The Collapse
Ansett: The Collapse 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street 4.20 avg rating — 16,389 ratings
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The Iran-Contra Scandal
The Iran-Contra Scandal 3.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Tricontinental: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Bank
Tricontinental: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Bank 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 4.54 avg rating — 126,926 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Alan Bond
The Rise and Fall of Alan Bond 3.72 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
by: Zeke Faux
4.24 avg rating — 8,239 ratings
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Business adventures
Business adventures 3.81 avg rating — 24,342 ratings
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Banking Bad: Whistleblowers, Corporate Cover-ups and One Journalist's Fight for the Truth
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers, Corporate Cover-ups and One Journalist's Fight for the Truth 4.32 avg rating — 574 ratings
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In Bed with Wall Street: How Bankers, Regulators and Politicians Conspire to Cripple Our Global Economy
In Bed with Wall Street: How Bankers, Regulators and Politicians Conspire to Cripple Our Global Economy 3.82 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Westpac: The Bank that Broke the Bank
Westpac: The Bank that Broke the Bank 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World 3.80 avg rating — 3,973 ratings
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Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,875 ratings
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Merchants of Menace: The True Story of the Nugan Hand Bank Scandal
Merchants of Menace: The True Story of the Nugan Hand Bank Scandal 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World
Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World 3.81 avg rating — 891 ratings
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RICH KIDS - How the Murdochs and Packers lost $950 million in One Tel
RICH KIDS - How the Murdochs and Packers lost $950 million in One Tel 3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Thieves of Threadneedle Street: The Incredible True Story of the American Forgers Who Nearly Broke the Bank of England
The Thieves of Threadneedle Street: The Incredible True Story of the American Forgers Who Nearly Broke the Bank of England 2.65 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon 3.82 avg rating — 33,709 ratings
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Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America's Corporate Age
Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America's Corporate Age 3.80 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Art of the Steal: How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America's #1 Crime
The Art of the Steal: How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America's #1 Crime 3.77 avg rating — 853 ratings
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Best Business Crime Writing of The Year
Best Business Crime Writing of The Year 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business 3.95 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Grant
Grant 4.50 avg rating — 42,013 ratings
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Warren G. Harding (The American Presidents, #29)
Warren G. Harding (The American Presidents, #29) 3.67 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
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The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief 3.85 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
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A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age 3.73 avg rating — 291 ratings
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 4.17 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures 3.25 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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My Adventures with Your Money: George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artist
My Adventures with Your Money: George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artist 3.73 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia
Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia 4.55 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,319 ratings
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series)
Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series) 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Nuclear Terrorist: His Financial Backers and Political Patrons in the US and Abroad
The Nuclear Terrorist: His Financial Backers and Political Patrons in the US and Abroad 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America 4.14 avg rating — 1,451 ratings
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Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The New Robber Barons
The New Robber Barons 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Internet Wars: The Struggle for Power in the 21st Century
Internet Wars: The Struggle for Power in the 21st Century 4.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money 4.08 avg rating — 4,350 ratings
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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
by: Dean Jobb
3.87 avg rating — 2,201 ratings
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Swiped
Swiped 3.50 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Watergate: A Brief History with Documents
Watergate: A Brief History with Documents 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Hack-Proof Your Life Now! The New Cybersecurity Rules: Protect your email, computers, and bank accounts from hacks, malware, and identity theft
Hack-Proof Your Life Now! The New Cybersecurity Rules: Protect your email, computers, and bank accounts from hacks, malware, and identity theft 4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath 3.71 avg rating — 5,478 ratings
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War 3.90 avg rating — 3,124 ratings
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Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It
Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It 3.73 avg rating — 2,442 ratings
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Uninvested
Uninvested 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia
Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It
Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It 4.25 avg rating — 1,914 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by: Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,193 ratings
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Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners
Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners 4.30 avg rating — 67 ratings