John Brooks

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1) Business adventures: twelve classic tales from the world of Wall Street

Author

Brooks, John

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

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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 rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined...

2) The girl behind the door: a father's quest to understand his daughter's suicide

Author

Brooks, John

Publisher

Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

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An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director, Contra Costa Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge). Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter's room...