Download Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street Audiobook

“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’ deeper insights about business are just as relevant today as they were back then.”

“[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.”

“The prose is superb. Reading Brooks is a supreme pleasure. His writing turns potentially eye-glazing topics 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.”

“Johnny Heller narrates twelve detailed essays on the history of business, written between 1959 and 1968 for the New Yorker. In measured tones, Heller covers such topics as the 1962 stock market crash, IRS code codification, Texas Gulf oil, the Xerox machine, the creation and failure of the Edsel, the Piggly Wiggly supermarket chain, General Electric, the New York Stock Exchange, Tennessee Valley Authority administrator David Lilienthal, BF Goodrich, the Federal Exchange versus the pound sterling, and more. Affecting a newscaster’s matter-of-fact tone, Heller reports the events as if they occurred yesterday. This audiobook is the perfect gift for listeners who love the history of business and want to understand how technology evolved to what we know today.”