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Douglas Brunt
Douglas Brunt reads an excerpt from THE LOST EMPIRE OF EMANUEL...
The Parallels Between 1910s Russia and Today
How the Nobels Built an Oil Empire
Emanuel Nobel: The Global Titan Lost to History
Doug Brunt discusses THE MEANS
Douglas Brunt's account of Ghosts of Manhattan
Books by Douglas Brunt
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel
Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
Other than the Tsar, Emanuel Nobel was likely the wealthiest man in early 20th-century Russia. He and his father, Ludwig, rose from bankruptcy to become the owners of an oil company that rivaled John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. They imported the best practices from America, and then used th...
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel
Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance on the eve of World War I.