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From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible...

Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." -From the Foreword...

"The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place."...

Qu'ont en commun le désastre financier de la Ford Edsel, le développement rapide des Xérox et les incroyables scandales de General Electric et de Texas Gulf Sulphur ? Ce sont des exemples emblématiques d'entreprises qui se sont définies par un moment de gloire ou de notoriété particulier. L'histoire de Wall Street est pétrie de grandeur et de décadence, d'incertitude et d'instabilité, en un mot, d'aventure.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on communication, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you speak more authentically, express your ideas with clarity and impact, and win over your audience. This book will...

Bellaria Jimenez and John F. Bucsek are highly accredited Certified Financial Planners, with awards and accolades that make them experts in their field. They’ve been consulting for 20 years.