But what scrutinizing readers will find is that there is a common theme behind every story. And it served him very well.īusiness Adventures consists of twelve stories from the business world and Wall Street with each comprising a chapter that details critical moments in American industry.īy the first impression, the stories appear rather unrelated but in a subtle way seem to reach every fragile key point of almost any business and its relation to capital providers. He simply wrote about business, people, and how it went for them in a very intriguing way. While not being a breaker a big stories, Brooks realized early on that it was storytelling – and not financial jargon – that would propel readers through his pieces.
Many of Brooks’s pieces were about business profiles and economic affairs throughout the 1950s and 1960s. After writing for a couple of years, Brooks longed for a looser style and longer-form writing and moved on to the New Yorker as a financial writer which he called the lucky break that made his career. Since Bill Gates blogged about his admiration for the book, it has been relisted at the top of the Amazon and New York Times bestseller lists.īorn in 1920, John Brooks grew up in the Roaring Twenties, lived through the Great Depression, graduated from Princeton, and served in World War II, until becoming a contributing editor for Time Magazine. That is why the book is up there as one of my favorites on the shelf. The settings might have changed but the key lessons have not, because the rules of business success and failure haven’t. As someone who might as well have been the father of Michael Lewis, John Brooks is simply a fantastic writer.Įven though the book is written from a collection of twelve New Yorker articles in the 1960s, each story is as relevant to business today as ever. I had such a great time reading Business Adventures by John Brooks.
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