age ~86
from Tulsa, OK
The Go-Go Years"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 p...
Author
John Brooks
Binding
Paperback
Pages
384
Publisher
Wiley
ISBN #
0471357545
EAN Code
9780471357544
ISBN #
6
As a child, John Brooks loved to build models and sail with his grandfather. When most teenagers were at the prom, John was changing jibs in the Indian Ocean, halfway through a 35,000-mile, two-year cruise. He began building boats in commercial yards at 19, while studying boat design and building hi...
Author
John Brooks, Ruth Ann Hill
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
Wooden Boat Publications
ISBN #
0937822582
EAN Code
9780937822586
ISBN #
4
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 by ...
Author
John Brooks
Binding
Paperback
Pages
307
Publisher
Wiley
ISBN #
0471357529
EAN Code
9780471357520
ISBN #
1
John Brooks (May 4, 1752 March 1, 1825) was the 11th Governor of Massachusetts from 1816 to 1823; he was the last significant Federalist elected official in ...