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Business Adventures
''Business Adventures'' is a 1969 collection of 12 essays written by John Brooks (writer), John Brooks. The essays, all of which were previously published in ''The New Yorker'', deal with financial and corporate life in the United States. In 1963 Harper & Row published ''The Fate of the Edsel and Other Business Adventures'', which contains 3 of the 12 essays published in the 1969 collection. On July 11, 2014 in an essay published in the ''Wall Street Journal'' and slightly later in his blog, Bill Gates proclaimed ''Business Adventures'', recommended to him by Warren Buffett, as "the best business book I've ever read." On July 8, 2014, Open Road Media released an e-book edition entitled ''Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street'' and in August 2014 offered a paperback edition. In 2014 Penguin Random House#Penguin Random House Digital Publishing Group, Penguin Random House Audio released an audiobook of ''Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brooks (writer)
John Brooks (December 5, 1920 – July 27, 1993) was a writer and longtime contributor to ''The New Yorker'' magazine, where he worked for many years as a staff writer, specializing in financial topics. Brooks was also the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction, the best known of which was an examination of the financial shenanigans of the 1960s Wall Street bull market. Early life John Nixon Brooks was born on December 5, 1920, in New York City, but grew up in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from Kent School in Kent, Connecticut in 1938 and Princeton University in 1942. After graduation Brooks joined the United States Army Air Forces, in which he served as a communications and radar officer from 1942 until 1945. He was aboard the First United States Army headquarters ship on D-Day during the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. After leaving the military, Brooks went to work for ''Time'' magazine, where he became a contributing editor. He worked at ''Time'' for on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
