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“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.”
- Bill Gates
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“[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
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“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.”
- Slate
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“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.”
- AudioFile