Amazon Unbound review: how Jeff Bezos engulfed and devoured us all

Brad Stone's second book on the world's richest person is another portrait of great power - and the great damage it does

• Amazon fired him - now he's trying to unionize New York

Brad Stone, a senior editor at Bloomberg News, is now the author of a second book-length portrait of what may be the most successful business of the 21st century. When Stone's first book, The Everything Store, was published in 2013, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was worth a piddling $27bn. That number has risen to $190bn, 70% more than he had at the beginning of the pandemic.

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