Bøger af Wyatt Wells

Sixteen-year-old Alyssa Richardson has her life turned upside-down when she meets a mysterious stranger who tells her that she possesses "power," the ability to bend reality to her will. Soon she finds herself in a world of supernatural intrigue in her home city of Washington, D.C. Alyssa must master her powers and deal with a variety of threats, both mundane and mystical, that threaten herself, her friends, and her family. The result is an engrossing thriller with a sharp edge.

How did the son of a con man and a bigamist become America's wealthiest businessman and greatest philanthropist? How did the son of an alcoholic shoe salesman become a movie star and the President of the United States? How did a penniless orphan become a war hero and the dominant political leader of his age? The self-made man is a classic American type: the poor boy who makes good. Yet few books have studied exactly how such men advance. "Self Made in America" examines the careers of sixteen of the most famous examples of the type: Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Mellon, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, E.H. Harriman, Henry Ford, Booker T. Washington, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. The result is a fascinating study not only of how ambitious men succeed but of how American society works.

This Stanford Brief provides a concise overview of capitalism, the most powerful force in modern society.

Posits that an examination of Burns' tenure as the Chairman of the powerful Federal Reserve Board during most of the 1970s helps to explain the U.S. economy today.

Shows how the United States sought to impose its antitrust policy on other nations. This book chronicles how the attack on cartels and monopoly abroad affected everything from energy policy and trade negotiations to the occupation of Germany and Japan. It shows how the architects of the economy uncoupled political ideology from antitrust policy.