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October 10, 2021 24 mins

Episode 165 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - Richard Vague - author of "An Illustrated Business History of the United States". 

Richard is Secretary of Banking and Securities for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Brief History of Doom, a chronicle of major world financial crises, The Next Economic Disaster, a book with a new approach for predicting and preventing financial crises, and the Illustrated Business History of the United States - which is the subject of our interview.

From Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, and Cornelius Vanderbilt to Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates, with Madam C.J. Walker, Martha Stewart, Jay-Z, and many more in-between, An Illustrated Business History of the United States is a sweeping, lively, and highly approachable history of American business from the nation's founding to the twenty-first century.

The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/3ljkhSb.

Contact the host Lance Peppler by emailing lance@ideastorm.co.za.

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