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The Everything War by Dana Mattioli

The Everything War

As the Wall Street Journal’s Amazon correspondent (a post whose very existence speaks volumes), Mattioli’s reporting came to focus on allegations of the company’s anti-competitive behaviour, and it is the many eye-stretching case studies that are the meat of the book. — Read the complete FT review

Synopsis

Amazon is a behemoth in the truest sense of the word. The Amazon that Jeff Bezos invented is driven by a competitive edge that will stop at nothing. In The Everything War, Dana Mattioli follows this unfolding battle, exploring the rise of Bezos and exposing how Amazon has become too big for antitrust investigators to ignore. This book unveils a side of Amazon, and its leader, that has never been told before: its ruthless, competitive, killer instinct to destroy everything in its wake for dominance. Mattioli’s The Everything War broaches this question: has the company become too powerful to stop?