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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.
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  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.
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  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
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  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.
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  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.
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  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
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Business dynasties and family firms

Industrialists and tycoons

Families that held a fortune or a company across generations, and the heirs who spent it.

Books 15Recommenders 2

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  1. Ford: The Men and the MachineRobert Lacey, 1986
  2. The Fords: An American EpicPeter Collier, David Horowitz, 1987
  3. The Rockefellers: An American DynastyPeter Collier, David Horowitz, 1976
  4. The Rockefeller CenturyJohn Ensor Harr, Peter J. Johnson, 1988
  5. Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of VanderbiltArthur T. Vanderbilt II, 1989
Ford: The Men and the MachineFord: The Men and the Machine
T2 Ford: The Men and the Machine
Robert Lacey · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

Three generations of Fords, Henry, Edsel and Henry II, and their company.

The Fords: An American EpicThe Fords: An American Epic
T2 The Fords: An American Epic
Peter Collier, David Horowitz · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

Four generations of the family and the succession that nearly sank the company.

The Rockefellers: An American DynastyThe Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
T3 The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
Peter Collier, David Horowitz · 1976
Open LibraryGoodreads

The family and trusts that outlived the operating company.

The Rockefeller CenturyThe Rockefeller Century
T3 The Rockefeller Century
John Ensor Harr, Peter J. Johnson · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

Three generations of Rockefellers and how the fortune passed down.

Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House ofFortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
T3 Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
Arthur T. Vanderbilt II · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the Vanderbilt heirs spent and scattered the family fortune.

The Gilded LeafThe Gilded Leaf
T3 The Gilded Leaf
Patrick Reynolds, Tom Shachtman · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

The R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune and the scandals of the heirs who followed.

Robert Wood Johnson: The Gentleman RebelRobert Wood Johnson: The Gentleman Rebel
T3 Robert Wood Johnson: The Gentleman Rebel
Lawrence G. Foster · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Robert Wood Johnson, who put public trust before profit, and the origin of the Credo.

Henry and EdselHenry and Edsel
T3 Henry and Edsel
Richard Bak · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Henry Ford and his son Edsel, and how the father undermined his own successor.

The VanderbiltsThe Vanderbilts
T4 The Vanderbilts
Jerry E. Patterson · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

Illustrated family survey.

Sweet and Low: A Family StorySweet and Low: A Family Story
T4 Sweet and Low: A Family Story
Rich Cohen · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Mondo Agnelli: Fiat, Chrysler, and the PowerMondo Agnelli: Fiat, Chrysler, and the Power of a Dynasty
T4 Mondo Agnelli: Fiat, Chrysler, and the Power of a Dynasty
Jennifer Clark · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy InsiCrazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty
T4 Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty
Jerry Oppenheimer · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Family history rather than company analysis; gossipy in tone.

Empty MansionsEmpty Mansions
T4 Empty Mansions
Bill Dedman · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Morgan Housel

Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers BecamSons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
T4 Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
Daniel Schulman · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

The four Koch brothers' lives and their business, social and political ambitions.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Beer MoneyBeer Money
T4 Beer Money
Frances Stroh · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Family memoir of a brewer undone partly by its distribution position.

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