Business biography summer reads

Clash of the titans

SUMNER Redstone built a global media empire, including companies Viacom and CBS, and the 95-year-old is still making headlines today. The King of Content by Keach Hagey traces Redstone’s business trajectory — and his complicated family and love life — and looks at the battle to keep his empire relevant in the face of a changing media landscape. €22.57; amazon.co.uk

Store wars

OLIVER Shah’s lively bio of fashion billionaire Phillip Green makes for compulsive reading. Damaged Goods: The Inside Story of Sir Philip Green, the Collapse of BHS and the Death of

the High Street explores the rise of the colourful British entrepreneur and provides the inside track on one of the UK’s biggest business scandals. €20.30; dubraybooks.ie

About Adam

BRITISH MP Jesse Norman presents an engaging account of the life and ideas of the father of modern economics in Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters Martin dispels the myths about his subject as he argues that understanding Smith properly will allow a deeper understanding of the problems of modern capitalism. €20.30; dubraybooks.ie

Going for gold

JOHN W Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant in America where he made his fortune during the California Gold Rush.

The Bonanza King by Gregory Crouch is the rags-to-riches tale of how he eventually gained control of the ‘Big Bonanza’ of gold and silver ore and made an huge fortune in mining, to become one of the most admired men in his adopted country. €25.54; amazon.co.uk