The Deals that Made the World: Reckless Ambition, Backroom Negotiations, and the Hidden Truths of Business

"Excellent. ... Impressive." —Financial Times

An award-winning investigative journalist takes us inside the ten business deals that have transformed the modern world

We tend to think of our world as controlled by forces we basically understand, primarily the politicians we elect. But in The Deals That Made the World, Jacques Peretti makes a provocative and quite different argument: much of the world around us—from the food we eat to teh products we buy to the medications we take—is shaped by ...