By now you've likely heard the buzz about Business Adventures, recently revealed to be the favorite business book of billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. A collection of twelve New Yorker essays by journalist John Brooks and published in 1969, this book has experienced a major resurgence and currently sits at number three on The New York Times Business Books Best Seller List.
In addition to releasing the first paperback edition of Business Adventures in over forty years, Open Road Media is pleased to bring back two additional John Brooks titles in ebook. Told with the same incisive reportage, wit and humor found in Business Adventures, Once in Golconda and The Go-Go Years offer insightful business advice through storytelling.
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, looks at the stock market’s boom and bust of the 1960s and 1970s, and is replete with “verve, color, and memorable one-liners” (
The New York Times Review of Books). Includes the astounding story of H. Ross Perot’s loss of $450 million in one day; the tale of America’s “Last Gatsby,” Eddie Gilbert; and the account of financier Saul Steinberg’s failed grab for Chemical Bank.With a foreword by Michael Lewis.
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chronicles the stock market crash of 1929 and its aftershocks in a way that
The Wall Street Journal calls “freshly shocking.” In fascinating detail, Brooks recounts the euphoric financial climb of the twenties as well as the vertiginous crash of 1929. Profiling some of the era’s most famous—and infamous—bankers, traders, and hucksters, Brooks gives a stunning and colorful account of this period of boom and bust. With a foreword by Richard Lambert.
Read more from this best-selling author whose books have endured as classics.
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