Everything War – Dana Mattioli (2026)

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2024, this book is a hard-hitting investigation into Amazon’s dominance and pursuit of total control. For more than twenty years, Amazon has been seen as the quintessential American success story, while its “customer obsession” has made it attractive to consumers worldwide. Yet the company has grown by abusing data, exploiting partners, copying competitors, avoiding taxes and using its power to dominate more than a dozen industries beyond retail. Drawing on unparalleled access and interviews with hundreds of people, including Amazon executives, competitors and small businesses dependent on its marketplace, Dana Mattioli reveals how the company bulldozed its way through every industry it entered, reshaped retail, transformed how Wall Street evaluates companies and altered the global economy. In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission filed a monopoly lawsuit against Amazon, potentially one of the largest antitrust cases of the twenty-first century. This is the inside story of how Amazon became one of the world’s most powerful and feared companies, and why its growing challenge is one of the defining business stories of our time.