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Books like Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks is about corporate history, wall street, business culture. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
    The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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    The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

    Michael Lewis · Economics

    The Big Short is Michael Lewis's account of the 2008 financial crisis as seen through the eyes of a handful of contrarians who saw the collapse coming, bet against the American housing market, and were right.

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  2. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
    Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

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    Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

    Michael Lewis · Business

    Moneyball is Michael Lewis's account of how Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, used statistical analysis to compete against teams with payrolls three times larger.

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  3. The Intelligent Investor
    The Intelligent Investor

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    The Intelligent Investor

    Benjamin Graham · Economics

    The Intelligent Investor is Benjamin Graham's case that successful investing has less to do with picking the right stocks than with managing your own behavior.

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  4. Liar's Poker
    Liar's Poker

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    Liar's Poker

    Michael Lewis · Business

    Liar's Poker is Michael Lewis's account of his years as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s, the decade when Wall Street stopped being a gentleman's club and became something closer to a casino.

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  5. 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

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    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

    Christopher Mayer · Business

    Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.

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  6. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
    7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

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    7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

    Hamilton Helmer · Business

    7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.

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