American Express

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A payments and travel franchise with a long history but a thin book literature, concentrated on the turbulent 1980s.

5 books

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  1. The Great Salad Oil SwindleNorman C. Miller, 1966
  2. A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money ClassJoseph Nocera, 1994
  3. American Express: The Unofficial History of the People Who Built the Great Financial EmpirePeter Z. Grossman, 1987

Books 5

A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class
T2 A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class
Joseph Nocera · 1994 · How the charge card and consumer credit business Amex pioneered was built.
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Mohnish PabraiPatrick CollisonWarren Buffett
The Great Salad Oil Swindle
T3 The Great Salad Oil Swindle
Norman C. Miller · 1966 · Pulitzer-winning account of the warehousing fraud that nearly broke Amex.
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Mohnish Pabrai
American Express: The Unofficial History of
T3 American Express: The Unofficial History of the People Who Built the Great Financial Empire
Peter Z. Grossman · 1987 · The fullest narrative history, from freight forwarding to cards.
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Mohnish Pabrai
House of Cards: Inside the Troubled Empire o
T3 House of Cards: Inside the Troubled Empire of American Express
Jon Friedman, John Meehan · 1992 · The Robinson years, Shearson, and the boardroom unravelling.
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Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution
T3 Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing
David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee · 2005 · Payments economics: interchange, closed loops and why Amex's model differs.
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