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CurrentUPDATE: AMERICANA: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism was selected by The Economist as one of its Best Books of the Year for 2017.Published by Penguin Press, AMERICANA is a sweeping 400-year look at the evolution of the American economy as shaped by an ongoing series of next big things from the venture financing of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company to the rise of tobacco, canals, railroads, telegraph all the way to the mobile era. The work covers how America's great innovators, entrepreneurs, and brands defined American life against the backdrop of larger themes of how the forces of democracy and markets often clashed.