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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...

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.

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 government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It’s also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it’s made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply consequential and beneficial to everyone. Michael Lewis invited his favorite writers, including Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell, to join him in finding someone doing an interesting job for the government and writing about them.

"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."...

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.