John Brooks

A humorous and keen look at the roller-coaster boom and bust of the 1960s and 1970s by the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures John Brooks blends humor and astute analysis in this tale of the staggering "go-go" growth of the 1960s stock market and the ensuing crashes of the 1970s. Swiftly rising stocks promised fast money to investors, and voracious cupidity drove the market. But the bull market couldn't last forever, and...

God chose to give us life and to grant us the gift of free will…knowing long before our first breath was drawn that the time would come when we would choose to selfishly turn our backs on him…and He still chose grace. His love for us is immeasurable and, I believe, unable to be fully understood by our finite minds. We simply have to accept it on faith alone. Not a moment passes, nor is a breath taken, the sun does not rise or set, the world does...

The works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized for "positive" or "negative" representations of Black people and Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black identity or the "Black experience." However, many contemporary Black artists are creating works that cannot be slotted into such categories. Their art resists interpretation in terms of conventional...

Synopsis, for 'The first rays of sun'.The story tells of the charismatic characters and a community discovering their future by means of natural progression, love, harshness and the blood of battle.Set in the future after the population had been drastically reduced and yesterday's world had mostly been reduced to dust. Those surviving people learnt to exist by whatever means, tribal, violent and in the main, hunters and gatherers. Their experience,...

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...

"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...

With nostalgia for retro shopping malls at an all time high, "Jasper Mall" shows the realities of the dying American mall and the individuals inside.