His novel “The Barbarian Nurseries” was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2011 and also won the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction his latest work is “The Last Great Road Bum.” He’s married, the father of three children and the son of Guatemalan immigrants. Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.

The Los Angeles-born writer is the author of five books, which have been translated into 15 languages. Tobar has an MFA in creative writing from UC Irvine and studied at UC Santa Cruz and at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City. I suppose that if you ever heard of this book, its because it is Bill Gates and Warren Buffets favourite business. Confusion of Confusions, written by a plunger on the Amsterdam.

He has also worked as features editor at the LA Weekly and as editor of the bilingual San Francisco magazine El Tecolote. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street Learn more about Great on Kindle About the author John Brooks (1920-1993) was an. The behavior of the pioneering Dutch stock traders is ably documented in a book entitled. In todays fast-paced world, its tough to find the time to read. Tobar was The Times’ bureau chief in Mexico City and Buenos Aires and was part of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 L.A. Business Adventures by John Brooks: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by. Hector Tobar worked at the Los Angeles Times for two decades: as a city reporter, national and foreign correspondent, columnist and with the books and culture department.

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