Business Adventures

Rare pro-business portraiture which will stand up among the best financial journalism. -- Kirkus Brooks's great contribution is his synthesis of all the elements that made the 1960s the most volatile in Wall Street history . and making so much material easily digestible for the uninitiated. -- Publishers Weekly Brooks ... is about the only writer around who combines a thorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behind the dance of numbers 'high, pure, moral melodrama on the themes of possession, domination, and belonging. -- Time [Brooks] provides the early version of what we think of as Malcolm Gladwell-style or Freakonomics-style lessons. . . . But Brooks features another trait that modern business writers, whether James Stewart, Malcolm Gladwell, or Michael Lewis, do not. Brooks is truly willing to give up his own views to get inside the mind of all his subjects. --National Review More than two decades after Warren [Buffett] lent it to me--and more than four decades after it was first published--Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read . . . Brooks's deeper insights about business are just as relevant today as they were back then. --Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal The prose is superb. Reading Brooks is a supreme pleasure. His writing turns potentially eye-glazing topics (e.g., price-fixing scandals in the industrial electronics market) into rollicking narratives. He's also funny. . . . He tells entertaining stories replete with richly drawn characters, setting them during heightened moments within the world of commerce. --Slate [Brooks] provides the early version of what we think of as Malcolm Gladwell style or Freakonomics-stylelessons.... But Brooks features another trait that modern business writers, whether James Stewart, Malcolm Gladwell, or Michael Lewis, do not. Brooks is truly willing to give up his own views to get inside the mind of all his subjects. National Review More than two decades after Warren [Buffett] lent it to me and more than four decades after it was first published Business Adventuresremains the best business book I ve ever read . . . Brooks s deeper insights about business are just as relevant today as they were back then. Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal The prose is superb. Reading Brooks is a supreme pleasure. His writing turns potentially eye-glazing topics (e.g., price-fixing scandals in the industrial electronics market) into rollicking narratives. He s also funny.... He tells entertaining stories replete with richly drawn characters, setting them during heightened moments within the world of commerce. Slate More than two decades after Warren [Buffett] lent it to me--and more than four decades after it was first published-- Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read . . . Brooks's deeper insights about business are just as relevant today as they were back then. --Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal The prose is superb. Reading Brooks is a supreme pleasure. His writing turns potentially eye-glazing topics (e.g., price-fixing scandals in the industrial electronics market) into rollicking narratives. He's also funny. . . . He tells entertaining stories replete with richly drawn characters, setting them during heightened moments within the world of commerce. -- Slate