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  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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Ron Chernow

T1JournalistsBiography

Won the National Book Award for The House of Morgan (1990) and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Washington: A Life.

Titan and The House of Morgan reconstruct from company and family archives how Standard Oil consolidated an industry and how a private bank organised American capital before securities regulation existed. Both carry the detail on trust structures, rebates, syndicates and succession that later histories of American business cite.

4 books of their own · 14 appearances

Books 4Appearances 14

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  1. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.Ron Chernow, 1998
  2. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern FinanceRon Chernow, 1990
  3. The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish FamilyRon Chernow, 1993
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
T1 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Rockefeller built Standard Oil, faced its breakup and gave his fortune away.

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 12 others

The House of Morgan: An American Banking DynThe House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
T1 The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Ron Chernow · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Morgan banks from 1830s London to J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley in the 1980s.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Paul Graham

The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
T1 The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
Ron Chernow · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

Two centuries of a Jewish banking family from Hamburg to London and New York.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton
T1 Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Hamilton's life from the West Indies to the Treasury and his duel with Aaron Burr.

Recommended by: Jim Collins, Patrick Collison and 2 others

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.How Rockefeller built Standard Oil, faced its breakup and gave his fortune away.1998T1Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger, Christopher Bloomstran and 11 others
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern FinanceThe Morgan banks from 1830s London to J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley in the 1980s.1990T1Mohnish Pabrai, Paul Graham
The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish FamilyTwo centuries of a Jewish banking family from Hamburg to London and New York.1993T1Mohnish Pabrai
Alexander HamiltonHamilton's life from the West Indies to the Treasury and his duel with Aaron Burr.2004T1Jim Collins, Patrick Collison, Antonio García Martínez and 1 others

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