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GtrsRGr8 · 12-25-2015, 04:15 PM

I hope that everyone is having (or had, for you across the International Date Line) a great Christmas.

Amazon is having a one day (today, December 25) sale on some digital things--movies, music, books, apps & games. The marked down prices on ebooks create some great Whispersync deals. You can follow this link to view all of the great deals.

If you like business, especially banking and finance, and you like getting a good value for your dollar (or pound, or franc or whatever) you should really like this Whispersync deal. The audio is nearly 35 hours and the price of the whole deal is only $5.98. That is a super ratio of cost per unit of audio length.

Title: The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Business).
Author(s): Ron Chernow.
Price: $5.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $19.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.3 stars/184 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.30/250 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 848/34 hours and 36 minutes.
Narrator(s): Robertson Dean.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...ook/B00H9JEIDA.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/House-Morgan-A...dp/B003CIQ57E/.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
Published to critical acclaim twenty years ago, and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about American finance. It is a rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned, ones that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan’s empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the family’s private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved—a world that included Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Franklin Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, and Winston Churchill. A masterpiece of financial history—it was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century—The House of Morgan is a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.

12-25-2015, 04:15 PM	#1524
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Whispersync Deal on J.P. Morgan's Banking Empire & the Rise of Modern Finance--$5.98! I hope that everyone is having (or had, for you across the International Date Line) a great Christmas. Amazon is having a one day (today, December 25) sale on some digital things--movies, music, books, apps & games. The marked down prices on ebooks create some great Whispersync deals. You can follow this link to view all of the great deals. If you like business, especially banking and finance, and you like getting a good value for your dollar (or pound, or franc or whatever) you should really like this Whispersync deal. The audio is nearly 35 hours and the price of the whole deal is only $5.98. That is a super ratio of cost per unit of audio length. Title: *The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. Genre:* Non-Fiction (Business). Author(s): Ron Chernow. Price: *$5.98* ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio). Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $19.95. Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.3 stars/184 reviews (Amazon). Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.30/250 ratings. Pages/Audio Length: 848/34 hours and 36 minutes. Narrator(s): Robertson Dean. Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...ook/B00H9JEIDA. Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/House-Morgan-A...dp/B003CIQ57E/. Comments: Book Description (Amazon): Published to critical acclaim twenty years ago, and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about American finance. It is a rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned, ones that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan’s empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the family’s private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved—a world that included Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Franklin Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, and Winston Churchill. A masterpiece of financial history—it was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century—The House of Morgan is a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 12-25-2015 at 04:19 PM.