Books by Zachary Karabell and Complete Book Reviews

Aron Cramer and Zachary Karabell, Rodale, $25.99 (282p) ISBN 978-1-60529-534-3
In their first book together, Cramer, the CEO of Business for Social Responsibility, and Karabell (Superfusion) define a sustainable business as one that not only delivers value, but also treats people fairly, improves the living standards of its...
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Zachary Karabell, Author . Knopf $26.95 (343p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4368-2
Conventional wisdom says that Christians, Jews and Muslims cannot get along and have never gotten along; the Crusades, the Inquisition and September 11 have all fueled the flames of constant religious intolerance. In a pedantic and frustrating study,
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Zachary Karabell, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (340p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8370-7
Karabell (A Visionary Nation ) delivers a compelling brief on the unlikely convergence of the U.S. and Chinese economies. He begins with an introduction to China's economic reforms in the post-Mao era and moves on to specific examples of how...
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Zachary Karabell, Author Knopf Publishing Group $27.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-40883-0
In an ably researched and well-told account, Karabell (The Last Campaign) chronicles the origins and legacy of one of the greatest undertakings of the 19th century. While the construction of the Suez Canal across a 100-mile stretch of arid Egypt to...
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Zachary Karabell, Author Times Books $22 (170p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6951-8
""Chet Arthur? President of the United States? Good God!"" is a refrain that punctuates this new biography of the 21st president, the latest in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s American Presidents series. Readers today may confess bewilderment rather...
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Zachary Karabell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-380-97857-1
""The magical fusion of the Web, the computer, and the stock market is a unique product of our cultural moment; the presence of visionaries who believe that they are fundamentally transforming culture is not,"" writes Zachary Karabell (The Last ...
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Zachary Karabell, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-40086-5
In 1948, Harry Truman was virtually a lame-duck president. He had no support in the polls, the right wing of his party was lurching toward Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond, the left wing toward Progressive candidate Henry Wallace, and his Republican...
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Zachary Karabell. Simon & Schuster, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5120-1
How did we get to the era of Big Data? Karabell, president of River Twice Research, a political and economic analysis firm, mines little known tidbits in the history of economics to explain how individuals, companies, and countries came to rely on...
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Zachary Karabell. Penguin Press, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-1-59420-661-0
Journalist and former finance executive Karabell (The Last Campaign) delivers a largely flattering history of the private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman. In 1800, Alexander Brown left Belfast, Ireland, for Baltimore, Md., where he became an
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