Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Frederick Lewis Allen

T2JournalistsFinancial history and ideas

Historian of the recent past who wrote popular histories of the first half of the 20th century. Died in 1954.

Harper's Magazine

Only Yesterday appeared within two years of the 1929 crash and records the Florida land boom, the margin mania and the mood of the decade as contemporaries experienced them, before hindsight tidied the story. The Big Change and The Great Pierpont Morgan carry that reporting into how American wealth and finance reorganised across the first half of the century.

4 books of their own

Books 4Profiles 2

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  1. Only YesterdayFrederick Lewis Allen, 1931
  2. The Great Pierpont MorganFrederick Lewis Allen, 1949
  3. The Big ChangeFrederick Lewis Allen, 1952
Only YesterdayOnly Yesterday
T2 Only Yesterday
Frederick Lewis Allen · 1931
Open LibraryGoodreads

American life in the 1920s, from the Armistice to the crash.

Recommended by: The Barefoot Investor

The Great Pierpont MorganThe Great Pierpont Morgan
T2 The Great Pierpont Morgan
Frederick Lewis Allen · 1949
Open LibraryGoodreads

J. P. Morgan from the Civil War to 1913: railroads, US Steel and rescues.

The Big ChangeThe Big Change
T2 The Big Change
Frederick Lewis Allen · 1952
Open LibraryGoodreads

How American life changed between 1900 and 1950.

Recommended by: Morgan Housel, Paul Graham

Secret FormulaSecret Formula
T2 Secret Formula
Frederick Allen · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Asa Candler built Coca-Cola and Robert Woodruff made it a global brand.

“Great Book to help understand Coca-Cola.” — Mohnish Pabrai

Source: Mohnish's Bookshelf — Books on Entrepreneurship, Management and Leadership, entry 202

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Only YesterdayAmerican life in the 1920s, from the Armistice to the crash.1931T2The Barefoot Investor
The Great Pierpont MorganJ. P. Morgan from the Civil War to 1913: railroads, US Steel and rescues.1949T2–
The Big ChangeHow American life changed between 1900 and 1950.1952T2Morgan Housel, Paul Graham
Secret FormulaHow Asa Candler built Coca-Cola and Robert Woodruff made it a global brand.1994T2Mohnish Pabrai

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