Business & Economics
A Square Deal
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when president William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. As the …
Ads and Sales: A Study of Advertising and Selling from the Standpoint of the Ne…
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Herbert Newton Casson
This book is a treatise on advertising as it was in the United States in 1911."This book is the first attempt, as far as I know, to app…
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways
Read by Jim Locke
Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris
This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…
Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (The Brady Report)
Read by Patrick McHaffie
Presidential Task Force On Market Mechanisms
From the close of trading on Tuesday, October 13, 1987, to the close of trading on October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ("…
Triumphant Democracy
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Andrew Carnegie
Subtitled "Fifty Years' March of the Republic," this is steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's love letter to America, first published in …
Making Home Profitable
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Kate Saint Maur
A new life in the country was another chance for Kate Saint Maur and her husband after a business failure left them in dire straits in the c…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 11, Mar. 16, 1881
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…
A Battle of the Books
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Gail Hamilton
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publis…
The Trial of a New Society
Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt
Justus Ebert
In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working…
The History of the Fabian Society
Read by Robert Morel
Edward R. Pease
"The History of the Fabian Society" describes the growth of Socialist theory in England, and the influence of Socialism on the pol…
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Dan Dequille
This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the r…
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 14, Apr. 6, 1881
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…
Tea: Its History and Mystery
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Joseph M. Walsh
Utility, not originality, has been aimed at in the compilation of this work. The obstacles and difficulties its author had met with in his e…
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 12, Mar. 23, 1881
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and s…
Gloves Past and Present
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Willard M. Smith
From the preface: "For thirty years I have devoted myself to the practical problems of the glove industry, and my connection with one o…
The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side Vol 1 No 2
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
This is the second issue of a monthly agricultural magazine for the year 1820. From the introduction: "A leading object of the Rural Ma…
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Here is the final report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission into the causes of the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. Two thoroug…
The Great Lakes and the Vessels That Plough Them
Read by Ted Lienhart
James Oliver Curwood
The author sets forth the facts of the Great Lakes' largest fleet of freighters in the world, explaining what an enormous role Great Lakes c…
The Seven Stairs
Read by PhyllisV
Stuart Brent
An Autobiography of Stuart Brent, who in 1946 followed his bliss and opened an independent bookstore in Chicago, which became very popular a…