The Gates team, in doing a little research, found a “whole army of Brooks disciples,” said Andy Cook, a general manager in Mr. Gates’s emissaries got in touch with the Brooks family and a publisher, Open Road Media, which brought “Business Adventures” out as an e-book on July 8 (a paperback edition is scheduled forĪugust). Gates and his personal office decided to do more, undertaking a campaign to bring the book back to life and introduce it to a whole new audience. That “Business Adventures” was his favorite business book, and that he has read it repeatedly since 1991, when his friend Warren E. Gates has recommended books including a summertimeĬollection on his website, Gates Notes, with selections weighted toward science and policy subjects. The reason is an emphatic endorsement from Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, whose star power still burns bright in business circles. 1 on Amazon’s “Hot New Releases” list, and No.1 on its “Most 3 on the Amazon list of top-selling books. As I write this, “Business Adventures” is No.

Summertime reading lists are typically heavy on page-turning novels - not a collection of business articles, published as a book in 1969, and long out of print until a few weeks ago.īut “Business Adventures,” by John Brooks, a staff writer at The New Yorker who died in 1993, and originally published by Weybright and Talley, which is no longer around, has suddenly become a Lazarus-like

The Go-Go Years by John Brooks