Reviews for The Business Disasters Book of Days: The World's Greatest Financial Mishaps, Follies and Rem...

The average rating for The Business Disasters Book of Days: The World's Greatest Financial Mishaps, Follies and Rem... based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-03-26 00:00:00 Wanda Padasdao Very funny and largely true statements. Just don't take them to the bank but to the theatre.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-05 00:00:00 Richard Chappell Note: This review is of an earlier edition - The Rise of Big Business, 1860-1910, and does not reflect any changes contained in more current editions. This was a fantastic overview of the beginnings of big business in the second half of the 19th century, with well-placed insights regarding a few decades before and after. Porter expressed all of his ideas concisely, but still repeated them as little reminders as needed so that I never felt lost. The writing was exceptionally engaging, and I now feel that I have a wonderful foundation on which I can build by reading other books about the time period. The bibliographical essay at the end contained a number of helpful resources, including a few books which I know I'll be reading in the future. I would highly recommend this to someone either starting studying this period of history and to those who may know some details but want a larger picture.