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McFarland & Company Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century
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Kensington Publishing Corporation Leading with Respect
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Harriman House Publishing Instant Millionaires
Book SynopsisIn this book you will meet three dozen impatient people. They weren''t satisfied with the slow, plodding, money-saving route to financial security, the safe route that most of us feel stuck with. They wanted instant wealth - and they got it.As Max Gunther points out, our folklore frowns on the idea of quick money. As in the fable about the race between a tortoise and a hare. In the fable, the hare loses. The stories in this book are not fables. They are true. In these stories, the hares win.They are a richly varied lot, these happy hares. Gunther opens with a few dazzling millionaire legends, such as the man who invented Monopoly. You''ll then meet fascinating characters such as: Harvey Shuster, who beat the stock market; Howard Brown, who decided to be rich and became a multi-millionaire within three years; and a group of men who made fast fortunes on fads such as the Hula Hoop and the Frisbee.These stores illustrate that the dream of quick money isn''t such a ridiculous dream after all. Read these tales about hares who have won and when you have, maybe you''ll decide to run with them.Table of ContentsEditor's Note 1. Shiny Dimes and the Slow-Money Ethic 2. Some Grand Old Legends - The great merchandiser - The man who sold holes - The man who passed "go" - The lady who rode the wind - The pantsmaker 3. Two Well-Traveled Routes - Where the fortunes grow 4. The Fantasy Land of Franchising - The lady who won by losing - The man who won by losing - Selling to the sellers 5. The Second-Man Effect - Get-Up-and-Go, Ltd. 6. Fast Frolics in the Fun and Fad Markets - The men from Wham-O - Mr. Gentry's terrible-tasting cereal - The downhill riser 7. Right Place, Right Time - The well-sited airport - The well-timed wheels - The service everybody needed 8. The Business of Show Business - Scoring in the athlete market - High notes in the music business 9. A Simple Idea is Enough - If it doesn't fit, cut a hole in it - If it's cumbersome, fold it 10. Not by Bread Alone - A lobsterman in Maine - A groceryman in Utah 11. The Man Who Decided to be Rich - From nowhere to almost everywhere in three years ... And how it's done 12. The International Ploy - How to make old ideas new 13. The Speeders - The great borrower ascendant - The great borrower down a peg - The nose-thumber ascendant - The nose-thumber down a peg 14. Missing from the Curriculum - The car-lover 15. The Anti-Salary Philosophy - A club for future millionaires 16. Instant Successes Yet To Be - Fourteen fast fortunes of the future 17. Route Maps
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Harriman House Publishing Building a Billion
Book SynopsisJohn McCarthy MBE, of McCarthy and Stone, is a self-made multimillionaire. He and his family have been long-term members of The Times Rich List.Table of ContentsForeword 1. The Defining Moment 2. Birth, Bombs and Billericay 3. Bullies, Bottles and Burst Appendix 4. Wood, Rock and Stone 5. Cars, Construction and McCarthy And Stone 6. Sons, Separation, Gabbie and Gwen 7. Sites, Suites and Sheer Hard Work 8. Fast Cars, Fast Yachts 9. Moving Into Shelter 10. Stormy Waters 11. Planes, Planning and Pickets 12. Good People, Bad People 13. Riding High, Diving Deep 14. Critics, Concerns and Crisis Management 15. Straight Shooting 16. What Goes Up Must Come Down 17. McCarthy On Stone 18. Any Other Business?
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Harriman House Publishing Making Your Mark
Book SynopsisMaking Your Mark tells the fascinating and entertaining story of Mark's extraordinary success in business.
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Hurtwood Press David Kynaston Banker and philanthropist
Book SynopsisAnthony de Rothschild: Banker and Philanthropist tells the story of the man who influenced modern history. De Rothschild was at the helm of international banking, steering the system from the chaos after the First World War into the modern world. In this evocative new book, historian David Kynaston tells the fascinating story of Anthony de Rothschild (18871961). Through access to never previously consulted diaries and letters, a three-dimensional picture emerges of a complex and thoughtful man guiding the City's most famous merchant bank through the turbulent years between the 1920s and 1950s. In politics he was open-minded and constructive whilst in his philanthropy, not least through his leading role in helping Jewish refugees (especially children) to leave Nazi Germany for England, he was thoughtful and generous. Austere on the surface but warm beneath, impatient equally of fools and idealogues, always searching for how he could contribute to make a better world Anthony de Rothsc
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St. Martin's Publishing Group MONEY TRAP
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Hodder & Stoughton Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of
Book Synopsis**The Sunday Times Best Business Book of the Year 2020**'A satisfying ticktock of the company's rapid rise and crash, culminating in its disastrous I.P.O. in 2019 and Neumann's ouster.' New York Times 'This absorbing book exposes the sheer madness of WeWork: not just its founder Adam Neumann's extreme hubris, but why so many wiser minds bought into the fairytale.' Sunday Times The inside story of the rise and fall of WeWork, showing how the excesses of its founder shaped a corporate culture unlike any other.__________In its earliest days, WeWork promised the impossible: to make the workplace cool. Adam Neumann, an immigrant determined to make his fortune in the United States, landed on the idea of repurposing surplus New York office space for the burgeoning freelance class. Over the course of ten years, WeWork attracted billions of dollars from some of the most sought-after investors in the world, while spending it to build a global real estate empire.Based on more than two hundred interviews, Billion Dollar Loser chronicles the breakneck speed at which WeWork's CEO built and grew his company. Culminating in a day-by-day account of the five weeks leading up to WeWork's botched IPO and Neumann's dramatic ouster, Reeves Wiedeman exposes the story of the company's desperate attempt to secure the funding it needed in the final moments of a decade defined by excess. With incredible access and piercing insight into the company, Billion Dollar Loser tells the full, inside story of WeWork and its CEO Adam Neumann who together came to represent the most audacious, and improbable, rise and fall in business. __________A Sunday Times Best Business Book of the YearFortune Best Book of the Year New York Times' Books to Watch For in OctoberWIRED Books to Read This FallBloomberg's Nonfiction Title to Know this FallNewsweek's Must Read Fall NonfictionPublishers Weekly Top Ten for Business & EconomicsInsideHook's Best Books for OctoberLike John Carreyrou's Bad Blood and Mike Isaac's Super Pumped before it, Billion Dollar Loser traces the turmoil at a startup driven by a charismatic, arrogant founder. 'A frisky dissection of how a rickety real-estate leasing company tricked the world into seeing it as an immensely valuable, society-shifting tech unicorn.' WIREDTrade ReviewA satisfying ticktock of the company's rapid rise and crash, culminating in its disastrous I.P.O. in 2019 and Neumann's ouster. -- New York Times A frisky dissection of how a rickety real-estate leasing company tricked the world into seeing it as an immensely valuable, society-shifting tech unicorn....Wiedeman arranges the absurd details of their high lives in the C-suite into a pointillist portrait of wild hubris. -- WIREDWhen life transcends art, tell it straight. That's what Reeves Wiedeman, a New York contributing editor since 2016, has done with Billion Dollar Loser, the propulsive tale of WeWork's, and Neumann's, rise and fall. -- The Atlantic In the distant future, when historians recall the geyser of cash that banks and venture capitalists directed to Silicon Valley, they will almost certainly use the catastrophic collapse of WeWork as a cautionary tale. -- BloombergMove over Theranos, there's a new fallen unicorn in town. Wiedeman deftly takes us inside the much-hyped WeWork and its once venerated founder to find out what really happened-and what really went wrong. -- NewsweekTragicomic play-by-play of Neumann's misadventures. . . . Wiedeman's finest feat of reporting and double portraiture is his evocation of Neumann's relationship with his financial savior (for a time) Masayoshi Son. . . To delve any further into their relationship would be to give away the plot of Billion Dollar Loser, which, like the most engrossing nonfiction stories, has a plot indeed, one that only reality could contrive. - New York Times Book Review A swift, tragicomic saga of idealism, avarice, and unfettered ambition-as illuminating about WeWork as the past decade of venture-funded grandiosity, and an excellent case study in the power of branding. Reeves Wiedeman has a talent for the artfully deployed, jaw-dropping detail; there seems to be one on every page. Reading this book gave me the sensation of visiting a Potemkin village after a storm: wires dangling, trompe l'oeil flats at a tilt. Batshit, unsettling, and wholly satisfying. -- Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley
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Penguin Putnam Inc Permission To Screw Up
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media
Book SynopsisRupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. No one before him has trafficked in media influence across those nations so effectively, nor has anyone else so singularly redefined the culture of news and the rules of journalism. In a stretch spanning six decades, he built News Corp from a small paper in Adelaide, Australia into a multimedia empire capable of challenging national broadcasters, rolling governments, and swatting aside commercial rivals. Then, over two years, a series of scandals threatened to unravel his entire creation.Murdoch's defenders questioned how much he could have known about the bribery and phone hacking undertaken by his journalists in London. But to an exceptional degree, News Corp was an institution cast in the image of a single man. The company's culture was deeply rooted in an Australian buccaneering spirit, a brawling British populism, and an outsized American libertarian sensibility,at least when it suited Murdoch's interests.David Folkenflik, the media correspondent for NPR News, explains how the man behind Britain's take-no-prisoners tabloids, who reinvigorated Roger Ailes by backing his vision for Fox News, who gave a new swagger to the New York Post and a new style to the Wall Street Journal , survived the scandals,and the true cost of this survival. He summarily ended his marriage, alienated much of his family, and split his corporation asunder to protect the source of his vast wealth (on the one side), and the source of his identity (on the other). There were moments when the global news chief panicked. But as long as Rupert Murdoch remains the person at the top, Murdoch's World will be making news.Trade Review"Entertaining and informative...Folkenflik, the media correspondent for NPR... has developed the contacts and style that make this reportage fascinating and credible."--Booklist "Folkenflik lucidly and effectively sorts out the complicated phone-hacking story and its political ramifications."--Kirkus "Murdoch's World is bolstered by deep reporting, including scores of interviews, and laced with delicious anecdotes."--Los Angeles Times "I'm not sure I've seen a more apt capturing of Roger Ailes, a hardcore ideologue, the creator of one of the great anti-fact engines in the history of American life but at some level at [his] core someone who knows how to create and loves great television above all else."--Josh Marshall, publisher of Talking Points Memo
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She Writes Press Twentieth Century Boys: How One Multigenerational
Book SynopsisIn the early 1900s, Gordon Clark and his father, Si, sold their farm in rural Canada in search of the business of America. They found it in Seattle, Washington, and in 1929 Gordon and his brother Russ bought Genesee Coal and Stoker.Seattle life in the late 1920s was flourishing and businesses were booming —but within the year, the crash of the stock market would bring the Great Depression to the 1930s. Genesee survived, however, and during the 1940s, the Clark brothers adapted to the popular culture by adding heating oil to their coal service. The 1950s in Seattle spun good times for the heating oil business, but those happy days came to a screeching halt as competitive heating options arrived. The popular shift from heating oil to natural gas resulted in yet another change in business strategy for the second generation, led by Gordon’s son Don Clark. Through the decades that followed, Genesee Energy met each challenge, swaying with cultural and energy trends both locally and nationally. Now facing the current issue of climate change, Genesee Energy’s third generation, led by Steve Clark, is vectoring toward renewable energy to maintain its legacy.A narrative nonfiction saga of three generations of family, culture, and energy issues, Twentieth-Century Boys shows how relationships and values have carried one small company through near devastation time and again— from the 1920s to the present day.Trade Review
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ECW Press,Canada Billion Dollar Start-up: The True Story of How a
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Eye Books Baghdad Business School: The Challenges of a
Book SynopsisHeyrick Bond Gunning was on the first civilian plane into Baghdad after the airport had been secured following the fall of Saddam Hussein. Armed with a camp bed, some baked beans and $25,000 in cash, his mission was to establish a foothold for one of the world’s largest logistics businesses in one of the world’s most inhospitable markets. Baghdad Business School charts the challenges, the characters and the comedy of trying to do business in a war zone. It also provides a unique perspective on the Iraq conflict and is proof of the adage that, the more you put into life, the more you get out of it.Trade Review"Vividly describes how it feels to be thrown in at the deep end" – The Economist
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Paddy Mo: A Biography of Dr.Patrick Moriarty
Book SynopsisThis biography charts the life of Paddy Moriarty, the Kerryborn Chief Executive of ESB, a man who revolutionized corporate life during his leadership of the largest semi-state company in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Dingle in 1926, he became one of Ireland's leading business people of the twentieth century as he transformed ESB into a world-class electricity provider and a highly efficient, commercially driven company. Having built the power infrastructure of the new State, ESB played a critical role in the revitalization of the Irish economy and, on Moriarty's watch, proceeded to assist in developing the foundations of the Celtic Tiger economy. His vision was to make ESB 'the best electricity utility in the whole world', developing the highest standards of infrastructure at home while developing an international business in the economies of North and Central America, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. Moriarty joined ESB as a clerical officer in June 1945 at the age of nineteen and quickly gained a reputation as a young man with a determined view on how business should be run. He rose rapidly through the company ranks. He was head of Research and Audit in 1961, Assistant Chief Financial Officer in 1967 and Director Personnel in 1970, before becoming Chief Executive in 1981 and Chairman ESB in 1991. The man they called Paddy Mo conducted comprehensive and difficult industrial relations negotiations with the trade unions, ensuring harmony in the workplace during the 1980s – a decade of fast-moving change, massive technological reform and associated redundancies. His interpersonal skills, as well as his business instincts, became legendary. With Taoiseach Charles Haughey he helped pioneer the North-South Erne Waterways project in a bid to revitalize border communities. He was also a significant patron of the arts, encouraging sponsorship of painters, sculptors and musicians. His wide-ranging interests included sports and horse racing, with one of the Leopardstown classics being named in his honour. A sense of family, which included his younger brother Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh the renowned GAA broadcaster and commentator, was central to his world view.
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CAMRA Books 50 Years of CAMRA: Celebrating 50 years of the
Book SynopsisWhen four young friends went on a drinking holiday to Ireland in March 1971, they had no idea that their idle notion of starting a campaign to push for better beer choice would capture the public mood and grow into Europe's biggest single-issue consumer movement. In its landmark 50th year, CAMRA celebrates how a group of beer lovers turned an industry on its head, saved this country's unique beer style, for and became the voice of the beer, cider and perry consumer.
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A.& A.Farmar Bright Brilliant Days: Douglas Gageby and the
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Politico's Publishing Dirty Politics, Dirty Times
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Crucible Books The Morrison Story 1948-2019
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Old Street Publishing Hoi Polloi
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LID Publishing Wang Jianlin & Dalian Wanda: A Business and Life
Book SynopsisChina's economic rise and influence has been one of the most significant developments in the global economy of recent times. A driving force behind this expansion has been the private entrepreneurs and companies of China, some of which have literally redefined the economic and business landscape, both inside and outside of China. Wang Jianlin is one such entrepreneur. From small beginnings as an unknown soldier, Wang ventured into business and led a residential development company that was in imminent danger of going bankrupt. He turned the business around, and today, the Dalian Wanda Group is a transnational enterprise that has become a major player in real estate, football and the entertainment industry. This is the inside story of Asia's richest man, his rise from humble origins, who became one of China's great entrepreneur heroes, and whose presence today is pursued by the world's most important political and business leaders.
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LID Publishing Spirit: Huawei Stories
Book SynopsisFounded in 1987 by a former engineer in China’s People’s Liberation Army (Ren Zhengfei), Huawei Technologies is the world’s largest telecoms equipment manufacturer and second only to Apple in smartphones. Its emergence into a multinational with over 175,000 employees all around the world is nothing short of extraordinary. This book explores the spirit of Huawei. Through a series of personal stories told by Huawei employees, we gain a unique perspective on the extraordinary dedication and perserverance of the individuals that form the culture and spirit of the company, and which is the very foundation of Huawei’s immense success as one of today’s leading technology companies. As Ren Zhengfei remarked, “Huawei will move the world forward and set new standards”, and the company’s spirit is very much the driving force behind that.
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LID Publishing Global Development of Tiens Group: Swap,
Book SynopsisIn a world that is changing, everybody in business wants to know how to achieve and maintain success. This is the case whether your business is local, national, or global, and no matter the products or services you provide. This book sets out the impressive rise of Tiens Group, which started locally, expanded nationally, and now operates globally from its headquarters in China. The book provides not only an analysis of the factors that have contributed to the success, but also sets out examples of how these factors can be adapted to other business enterprises. In this book, you will discover deep insight into how notions such as swap and transcendence assist in business development, a sense of how Chinese businesses have developed across the world, and an understanding of how both clear focus and an ability to adapt are critical to business success.
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YouCaxton Publications A Sheffield Turner's Tale
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Nomad Publishing Once Upon a Time in Makkah: The Story of Saleh
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Simon & Schuster Elon Musk
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Contrarian
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Kohlhammer Friedrich List: Burger, Patriot Und Visionar
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Verlag Herder Der Kaufhauskonig
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Books on Demand Bullrich Salz - Marke Mythos Magensäure: Auf den
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Bloomsbury India Calling India
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Columbia University Press The Enduring Value of Roger Murray
Book SynopsisRoger Murray (1911–1998) was a crucial figure in the history of value investing. This book offers a compelling account of Murray’s multifaceted career alongside a series of remarkable lectures he gave late in his life that encapsulated his philosophy of investing.Trade ReviewJohnson and Sonkin provide a great account of Roger Murray's career and speeches. It is a careful record that sticks to the facts. -- Erin Bellissimo, Managing Director, Notre Dame Institute for Global InvestingThoroughly enjoy[able]. [A] fresh look at a great investment personality of the last millennium. This excellent tribute to Roger Murray and his enduring value will delight seasoned investment professionals and those who are just beginning their careers in investment research and management. * Enterprising Investor *Table of ContentsForeword, by Mario Gabelli and Leon CoopermanA Personal Tribute to Professor Roger Murray, by James Russell KellyPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Biography1. Murray’s First Career: Bankers Trust (1932–1955)2. Murray’s Second Career: Influential Economist (1950–1998)3. Murray’s Third Career: Beloved and Respected Business School Professor (1956–1978)4. Murray’s Fourth Career: Fund Manager (1965–1970)5. Murray’s Role in the Formation of the Private Pension Industry (1950–1980)6. The Fifth Edition of Securities Analysis (1988)7. Rebirth of Value Investing at Columbia Business School (1993)8. Recognition and Awards (1999 to the present)9. The “New” Roger Murray Lecture Series (2000)Part II. Museum of Television and Radio Lectures10. Lecture 1—Value Versus Price (January 22, 1993)11. Lecture 2—Ingredients of Markets and Value (January 29, 1993)12. Lecture 3—Equity Pricing and Capitalization Rates (February 5, 1993)13. Lecture 4—Convergence of Price and Value (February 12, 1993)Part III. Interview14. Full Interview with Peter Tanous (1996)Bibliography of Roger Murray’s PublicationsNotes
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Columbia University Press No Finish Line
Book SynopsisNo Finish Line is Meyer Feldberg as his friends and colleagues know him. In his telling, Feldberg’s story—both his successes and his failures—is a lesson plan for how to lead a worthy personal and professional life.Trade ReviewA warm and beautifully written memoir from one of the leading business school educators of his generation. Not surprisingly, this former Dean of Columbia Graduate School of Business—who transformed the institution into one of the world’s leading business schools—uses the opportunity to distill a series of life lessons relevant to all. At the same time, the memoir shows a humanity that serves as a role model. Particularly moving is the description of how, as Dean of the University of Cape Town's business school, he used his position to fight against apartheid. -- Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for EconomicsMeyer Feldberg has spent life venturing into new countries and new fields. In No Finish Line, he shares the lessons of his experiences—and wisdom on living a good and meaningful life. -- Michael R. BloombergTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsLesson 1. Pace YourselfLesson 2. Be Self-AwareLesson 3. Take Risks to Find the Right FitLesson 4. Life Is FragileLesson 5. Admit Your MistakesLesson 6. Confront InjusticeLesson 7. Address Difficulties in the MomentLesson 8. Be GenerousLesson 9. Place MattersLesson 10. Engage with All Your Constituencies but Know Who Comes FirstLesson 11. Lead from the FrontLesson 12. Wield Power ResponsiblyLesson 13. Make an Extra Effort for Top TalentLesson 14. Be Mentored and Be a MentorLesson 15. Tend to Your FriendshipsLesson 16. Actively Participate in Your CommunityLesson 17. Stay ActiveLesson 18. ConclusionEpilogue
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University of Illinois Press Air Castle of the South
Book SynopsisHow WSM put Nashville on the map of American entertainment Trade Review"In the midst of commercial radio's struggles comes a reminder of its glory days, when stations' soaring transmitter towers seemed like monuments to the broadcasters' influence. Air Castle of the South, by Craig Havighurst, tells the story of one such station, Nashville's WSM-AM. . . . While Mr. Havighurst, a music journalist and documentarian, is most interested in the station's cultural import, Air Castle of the South also presents a fascinating case study in the rise of commercial broadcasting. . . . Mr. Havighurst has done a service in preserving the colorful and instructive history of WSM - and in reminding us that giants once lived on the radio dial."--Wall Street Journal“Air Castle of the South brings a great deal of existing and new information about WSM into a single location. Havighurst employs a very readable style in presenting the history of this radio station, and there is no doubt that WSM has fostered the dissemination of country music. This book will have tremendous appeal to both general readers and scholars interested in country music.”--James E. Akenson, cochairman, International Country Music Conference, and coeditor of Country Music Goes to War "This is a vital book in the canons of country music history, but it's also a delightful read because the corporate growth and technological advances are peppered with stories such as Ernest Tubb's arrest for firing a gun in the National Life lobby and Hank Williams's call from jail. Havighurst treats WSM as if it's a character as rich and important as those it made famous, and he recreates the intangible studio moments that evaporate into thin air after reaching listeners' homes."--Weekly Standard"Havighurst has done a service in preserving the colorful and instructive history of WSM--and in reminding us that giants once lived on the radio dial."--Wall Street Journal"Havighurst provides impressive detail. . . . [And] has created a fascinating and compelling work, shedding significant new light on how Nashville, 'The Athens of the South,' evolved into Music City USA."--No Depression"[Air Castle of the South is] a fascinating narrative that describes in exhaustive detail the behind-the-scene stories, larger-than-life characters and an unwieldy trajectory that mirrored the increasing complexity of the broadcasting business in general. . . . [A]n engrossing paean to a station that became an American institution."--Performing Songwriter"Havighurst and the University of Illinois Press have produced a first-rate history, a biography of a radio station and a town, and a document that will help future generations appreciate the true story of country music. Highly recommended."--Bluegrass Unlimited"A deeply interesting . . . book. Craig Havighurst tells the tale mostly through a mosaic of biographical bits and pieces about a wide range of major players through the earlier years of the station's development. . . . A useful resource."--Dirty Linen "4 stars. Riding the airwaves through the history of Nashville's premier radio station."--MOJO "A well-researched and comprehensive history of one of the most influential radio stations in the history of both broadcasting and country music. . . . Anyone even remotely interested in country music will enjoy this long overdue history of early radio days and the large part one station in particular played in the evolution and dissemination of the genre."--Sing Out "Craig Havighurst has written an indispensable and long overdue history of WSM, which is likely to stand as the definitive work for some time. This book is a jewel in the crown of the country music list published by the University of Illinois Press."--Michael Streissguth, author of Johnny Cash: The Biography
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Indiana University Press Last Train to Texas
Book Synopsis1) Behind the scenes look at the railroad industry from an industry insider. 2) Features stories and history of railroad owners, conductors, and others throughout the past four decades. 3) Author is very well known in the railroad industry and is interested in events. 4) Railroad memoirs have sold well for IUP.Trade ReviewLast Train to Texas depicts modern railroading, warts and all, though a fascinating amalgam of stories. Readers finish understanding Frailey's love of railroading because of the breadth of his narratives. -- Mark Lardas * The Daily News Galveston *...a terrific read, a collection of short, snappy essays that mirror Fred's ceaseless curiosity about not only the business of railroading, but more importantly its people. -- Kevin Keefe * Trains Magazine *This book is more than just about a rail line re-birth in Nowheresville, Texas. Rather, it is an outstanding anthology of 46 short stores compiled by Fred Frailey recounting his rail adventures over the past four decades. The author's writing style is contemporary, straightforward, and entertaining with its clever wit. -- David J Mrozek * The Michigan Railfan *"...this book is a pleasent diversion, perfect for pool-side reading. Longtime followers of Fred W. Frailey will want to read this book." -- Bill Hough * The NRHS Bulletin *Table of ContentsForeword by Thomas G. HobackPart I: Running the Railroads1. President Carter to the Rescue2. The Man You Never Wanted to Cross3. Watch Rob Run4. Thinking Outside the Container5. The World According to Mcclellan6. The Saga of 'Pisser Bill'7. A Man in Full8. Mike Haverty's Long Shadow9. How to Go Boots Up in Railroading10. The Battles of Powder River11. When Lou Menk Saved a Zephyr12. Inside the Mind of Michael Ward13. The Legacy of Hunter Harrison14. A Battle for Supremacy in the WestPart II: Travels around Trains15. The Cocoon of a Long-Distance Train16. No Place for Man or Beast . . . or Train17. The Ladies from Cork Are Aghast18. Crossing the Country in a Blur19. Ode to a Coach Yard20. By Train to the End of the Earth21. Pencil-Whipping Train 10122. I Plead the Fifth23. My Prestigious Experience24. The Late, Late Train25. The Train to Cordoba26. You Gotta Love the Soo Line27. New York City, Then28. New York City, Now29. Best Little Railroad in Effingham30. Last Train to Texas31. Railroading in a Fiery Furnace32. Night Train to NowherePart III: Kicking the Train Down the Tracks33. Miss Katy's Funny Pieces of Paper34. Moments I'd Rather Forget35. The Timeless Clovis Sub36. What's the Matter with Florida?37. The Brain Drain38. A Little Drawbridge that Couldn't39. That Commodore Vanderbilt Feeling40. The Ageless World of Stan Kistler41. Saturday Night Fever42. Who Really Saved Illinois Central43. Why You May Yet Read by Candlelight44. 14th Street at Night45. The Wreck of Old 5446. The Mother of All Traffic Jams
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University of Washington Press War and Politics by Other Means
Book SynopsisShelby Scates's thirty-five-year career as a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has taken him to centers of action across this country and to wars and conflicts in many of the world's danger zones. Born in the rural South in the 1930s, Scates rejected the racism he saw there and in his late teens set out across the United States eventually to land in Seattle, attend the University of Washington, and launch himself into a world of work, travel, and adventure as a merchant seaman and soldier. He entered journalism as a wire-service reporter hired in Manhattan and assigned to the Dallas bureau. Reporting the political beat brought Scates to Baton Rouge and New Orleans to observe the remarkable performance and influence of Earl Long as governor of Louisiana; in 1957 to Little Rock, Arkansas, to witness a constitutional crisis, the early struggle to integrate the pubTrade Review"Too bad Ben Hecht never met Shelby Scates, a journalist’s journalist. His memoir is an enchanting crackle of political history (I especially loved the stories about Huey Long and JFK), war chronicles (in the Middle East and Cambodia), and other treacherous adventures, like his white-knuckle climb up the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan. And it is all so elegantly written you’ll despair when you finish it, as I did. A real friend of a book." -- Lesley Stahl * 60 Minutes *"A fascinating look at the inner workings of journalism by a conscientious reporter." * Booklist *Table of ContentsObion Country The Makings of a Journalist: Blue Sky, Blue Water Politics Journalist Journalism Newsman Olympia 1968 More Happenstance The Six-Day War The Palestinians: The "War of Attrition" Cambodia and Us Mountains Hickman A Few Words about Sources Index Maps
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WW Norton & Co Bagehot
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of a banker, essayist and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian.Trade Review"The most perceptive and brilliant economic and political writer of his time deserves a biographer of equal literary merit. In James Grant, Walter Bagehot has found him." -- Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England and author of The End of Alchemy"James Grant [is] one of the most influential contemporary commentators on Wall Street... in Grant’s hands, Bagehot’s life and career provide a superb prism through which to observe the extraordinary revolution in the British economy during the 19th century." -- Simon Nixon - The Times"The book makes a convincing case that Bagehot deserves credit for being a progenitor of a wider political tradition..." -- Moneyweek"A gem of a book: entertaining, wry, and gloriously eccentric." -- Sebastian Mallaby - Foreign Affairs"... excellent... biography" -- Benjamin Schwarz - The International New York Times"... engaging new biography of Bagehot... In this very enjoyable book, Grant demonstrates that he has the measure of a fascinating—and great—Victorian. " -- Financial Times"... his [James Grant's] book is excellent—built on a lot of study (including time in the archives) and written in a gripping style. Mr Grant is at his best when writing about Bagehot’s financial journalism and indeed his career as a banker. His accounts of the collapse of Overend Gurney, supposedly the Rock of Gibraltar of Victorian finance, and of “Lombard Street”, Bagehot’s book about that debacle, are exemplary." -- The Economist
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Still Surprised
Book SynopsisAn intimate look at the founding father of the modern leadership movement Warren Bennis is an acclaimed American scholar, successful organizational consultant and author, and an expert in the field of leadership. His much awaited memoir is filled with insights about the successes and failures from his long and storied life and career. Bennis'' life and career have traversed eight decades of first-hand experience with tumultuous episodes of recent history-from Jewish child in a gentile town in the 30''s, a young army recruit in the Battle of the Bulge to a college student in the one of the first progressive precursors to the civil rights movement to a patient undergoing daily psychoanalysis for five years, and later a university provost during the Vietnam protests. Reveals the triumphs and struggles of the man who is considered the pioneer in the contemporary field of leadership studies Bennis is the author of 27 books including the bestseller On Becoming a Trade Review"As a wonderfully honest reporter, Warren does not hesitate to discuss his disappointments and his mistakes, personal as well as professional. Yet this book has an excitement, an energy, a joie de vivre that is inspiring. As an essentialist, I suspect that Warren was born with an ebullient temperament. And yet at the same time, I must acknowledge that Warren is at the happiest point in his life right now, because the roles that he assumed in the last twenty years-- master teacher, mentor, writer, pundit, and, yes, guru--are the ones into which he has grown. And they have made him what he is, just as surely as he excelled in them because of who he is." (Howard Gardner, The Washington Post, August 11, 2010)Table of ContentsPRELUDE IX 1 The Crucible of War 1 2 Launch 23 3 Rites of Passage 51 4 Great Groups 83 5 Fighting the Bull 111 6 Going State 135 7 A Year at Sea 153 8 Coming Home 173 9 The Crucible of Age 199 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 215 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 221 INDEX 223
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Ted Turner Speaks
Book SynopsisAs the brainchild behind the Cable News Network, Ted Turner revolutionized the television industry by introducing a 24-hour news station. Dubbed Terrible Ted for his apparent disregard for the rules, he turned sharp business savvy into a global communications empire that has made him one of the wealthiest-and most powerful figures in the business. This unique biography, the latest in the bestselling Speaks series, presents the different shades of this colorful personality by bringing together original Turner quotes from newscasts, interviews, and articles. Janet Lowe (Del Mar, CA) is the author of the bestselling /Ispeaks/N series, including /IWarrenBuffett Speaks, Jack Welch Speaks, Bill Gates Speaks,/N and /IOprah Winfrey Speaks./N Shehas written for /Inewsweek/N, the /ILos Angeles Times/N, and the /IChristian Science Monitor./NTable of ContentsPartial table of contents: LESSONS FROM SAILING. Fastnet. Keep Going. Fight Like an Underdog. Have Fun. A SCARED, SCRAPPY KID. Ed's Boy. The Terrible Cadet. Jimmy Brown. The Brief Goodbye. IT'S ADVERTISING, STUPID. Learn as You Go. Accept No Limits. THE BRAT WHO ATE ATLANTA. Redefine the Question. I Was Cable When Cable Wasn't Cool. SEIZE THE TECHNOLOGY. Changing Television Forever. Ride the Leading Edge. A SPORTS EMPIRE. Throwing Heat. The Goodwill Games. THE NEXT BIG THING. Challenge Up. Time-Warner. THE TURNER STYLE. Study the Past, Live in the Future. Power. Fame. THE DEMON WITHIN. Feeling a Little Wacko. A High Maintenance Guy. FAMILY VALUES. She Ain't Much, But She's All I Got. Doing the Right Thing. THE RETURN TO IDEALISM. I Love Everything. Give Me Land, Lots of Land. The Quest for Peace. One Billion at a Time. Life is Nice. Time Line. End Notes.
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Wiley The Maverick and His Machine
Book SynopsisThe first complete look at one of America''s legendary business leaders This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century''s greatest business figures. Over the course of forty-two years, Thomas J. Watson took a failing business called The Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company and transformed it into IBM, the world''s first and most famous high-tech company. The Maverick and His Machine is the first modern biography of this business titan. Maney secured exclusive access to hundreds of boxes of Watson''s long-forgotten papers, and he has produced the only complete picture of Watson the man and Watson the legendary business leader. These uncovered documents reveal new information about how Watson bet the company in the 1920s on tabulating machines-the forerunners to computers-and how he daringly beat the Great Depression of the 1930s. The documents also lead to new Trade Review"...a rich and thorough portrait that goes right back to turn-of-the-century America..." (Business Voice, March 2003) The story of Watson's transformation of the disorganized, amorphous Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company into steamlined, world-famous IBM receives a spirited telling by Maney, a USA Today technology columnist. Access to previously unexplored records has provided juicy raw material, including letters and internal memos, to bring America's first celebrity CEO to life in this wart-sand-all biography: Watson (1874-1956) saw the strategic value of corporate culture early and was protective of what he built; Maney argues that the strength of that culture later allowed IBM to survive the potentially devastating effects of Watson's personality flaws. Charismatic, optimistic and generous, Watson was also self-absorbed and psychologically ruthless in getting things done his way. Hard to work for and unable to distinguish between the company and himself, he also behaved like a dictatorial CEO when wreaked havoc with his family. Watson's mania for overreaching peaked when he accepted a decoration from Hitler in 1937 under the deluded impression that Hitler woul d follow Watson's ca mpaign for world peace through world trade; according to Maney, that episode illustrates how out-of-control Watson's ego had grown. Yet, as Maney makes clear in this timely tale of the man who made information into an industry and discovered the power of corporate culture, "Watson wasn't just the best business story at the end of the 1930s; he had become a great American success story that captured the popular imagination." Agent, Sandy Dijkstra. (May). Forecast: Maney's book should hold great appeal not only for avid business readers but also for devotees of the vicissitudes of financial dynasties. That appeal will be supported by a 75,000-copy first printing and a $100,000 ad/promo budget. (Publishers Weekly, March 17, 2003) "...Maney has written a timely and authoritative biography. Without lapsing into hero worship, he presents a great, if flawed, man in all his humanity." (Business Week, May 12, 2003) WHEN Thomas J. Watson Jr., who ran the International Business Machines Corporation during its climb to dominance in the computer industry, published his memoirs in 1990, he called the book "Father, Son & Co." His father - who had taken over a motley assortment of business machine companies in 1914 while awaiting sentencing on a criminal antitrust conviction - loomed large in the story. Indeed, one reason the book has become a business classic is surely its poignant, child's-eye view of the flawed yet fascinating father who created I.B.M. and brought it to the brink of the computer age before passing it to his son, who died in 1993. The portrait of Thomas J. Watson Sr. in his son's memoirs had all of the misty myopia that accompanies any child's perceptions of a fearfully adored parent. One reviewer complained that "we hear too little of life within I.B.M. - and too much of Mr. Watson telling us how awful it was being his father's son." A much more lively and nuanced picture of the senior Watson can be found in Kevin Maney's excellent new biography, "The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of I.B.M." (John Wiley & Sons, $29.95). Enriched by access to Watson's personal papers from the I.B.M. archives, the book brings this complex man to life and provides a clearer sense of how the I.B.M. culture took shape around one man's quirks, preferences and iron whims. The company songs, the daily white shirts, the polish and pomp of corporate ceremonies - all of them were manifestations of Watson's own overcompensating insecurities. An awkward young man from a family with little money, he started out in a career that was the punchline of countless American jokes: the traveling salesman. Not until he was hired in 1896 by the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, did Watson start to acquire the poise and polish that he would demand of his own executives decades later. But his career at "the Cash," under the tutelege of its chairman, John H. Patterson, was very nearly his ruin. National Cash Register had a virtual monopoly in the manufacturing and sale of its product, which was becoming increasingly popular among American retailers. Unfortunately, the machines were built so solidly that they rarely wore out. Companies selling secondhand cash registers began to steal business from it. So, in 1903, Patterson drafted Watson to run an elaborate scam. After ostensibly resigning from the company, Watson set up a chain of used cash register stores that was secretly backed by National Cash Register. By paying more for secondhand machines and selling them for less, Watson drove virtually all of Patterson's competitors out of business. He seems never to have doubted the legality of what he was doing. But when an angry ousted executive started talking to the Justice Department, the scheme figured in a 1912 federal grand jury indictment of Patterson and more than two dozen of his executives, including Watson. In February 1913, Watson, Patterson and all but one of the other executives were convicted of criminal antitrust violations. Watson, newly married, faced up to a year in prison. Somehow, in 1914, he nevertheless persuaded an unreconstructed trust-builder named Charles Ranlett Flint to hire him to try to save a rickety business-machine trust that Flint had assembled in 1911. The conglomerate included the Computing Scale Company of America, which made scales that calculated the price of products sold by weight; the International Time Recording Company, which made the time clocks on which workers punched in for the day; and the Tabulating Machine Company, which used punched holes in rectangular cards to sort information - "the forefathers of mainframe computers," notes Mr. Maney, a technology columnist for USA Today. FLINT called this ailing hodgepodge the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. And in a remarkable decision - one cannot imagine it being replicated in this post- Enron era - he hired the energetic and supremely confident convicted felon, Thomas J. Watson, to bring the company back to life. Watson, whose conviction was later overturned, succeeded beyond anyone's imagination, except his own. Seeing the future in his little tabulating-machine company, he invested lavishly in research and expanded wildly, even in the face of the Depression. Mr. Maney observes that "Watson borrowed a common recipe for stunning success: one part madness, one part luck, and one part hard work to be ready when luck kicked in." The book draws on extensive corporate records to capture Watson's self-absorbed monologues to his senior executives, giving the reader an immense sympathy for the men and women who endured them. With I.B.M.'s cooperation, Mr. Maney seems to have inspected every letter, memorandum and index card that passed through Watson's hands. But the bulkiness of the research only occasionally breaks through the elegant fabric of the storytelling. Watson - a tyrant in the boardroom, a charmer on the dance floor, a sponge for sycophantic flattery, a genius at selling an idea - emerges as an infuriating, sometimes pathetic but always fascinating business icon. For those who loved "Father, Son & Co.," this is an essential and readable companion book. Call it "I.B.M.: The Prequel." (New York Times, May 12, 2003) IBM for decades had a distinct corporate personality, and the leader in driving that culture was Thomas Watson, Sr. Other books have described this irascible man, yet this biography by a technology journalist uses recently discovered and wonderfully detailed corporate log books to flesh out his contradictory persona. Watson was a short-tempered tyrant who surrounded himself with yes-men and managed an increasingly complicated company by instinct. Yet he inspired loyalty and enthusiasm through his relentless optimism and willingness to hire ordinary young people and give them a chance. He made IBM one of the first companies to accept women in its training programs, in the1930s no less. And when managers resisted hiring the first women graduates of the programs, he angrily fired every man who graduated the same year. Maney notes that IBM's dominant position in a booming industry may have played a large part in persuading employees to tolerate Watson's unpredictable behavior. But the author's delightful anecdotes showcase the quirky, human side of what became a major knowledge-based company. (Harvard Business Review, May 2003) "...excellent use of transcripts...should be recommended reading for anyone who seriously wants to be a business mogul..." (Economist, 10 May 2003) "...formidable in its research, vivid, insightful and often hilarious..." (Management Today, June 2003) "...an intriguing study of the man who made IBM, Thomas Watson..." (New Scientist, 7 June 2003) "Maney, a USA Today technology columnist, has written a superb biography of Thomas Watson Sr., who took over the small Computer-Tabulating-Recording (C-T-R) Company in 1914 and fashioned it into the giant corporation we know today as International Business Machines (IBM). Watson had come to prominence for his work at National Cash Register (NCR), but owing to his involvement in a federal antitrust case, was forced out of his job. This might have destroyed a lesser man, but not Watson, who quickly moved on to C-T-T. A lifelong salesman, Watson always paid close attention to his company's customers, but he also felt that employees were equally important, offering high wages and good benefits. Although his management style was often regarded as imperious, he is credited with founding IBM's famous corporate culture, which enabled the company to succeed. As he aged, be became increasingly stubborn and brooked no dissent, which led to some terrible misjudgments, most notably his involvement with IBM's German subsidiary and receipt of a medial fromTable of ContentsForeword. Introduction. Prologue. Chapter 1: Maverick Kindling. Chapter 2: Lit by Flint. Chapter 3: A Mess Spelled C-T-R. Chapter 4: Bringing Up Baby IBM. Chapter 5: Daring and Luck. Chapter 6: Friends, Heroes, Sycophants. Chapter 7: Enemies and Delusions. Chapter 8: King and Castle. Chapter 9: Watson the Second. Chapter 10: Watson's War. Chapter 11: Old Man, New Electronic Age. Chapter 12: World Conquest. Chapter 13: The Maverick and His Humanity. Chapter 14: Generations After. Selected Bibliography. Notes. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Capitalist Philosophers The Geniuses of Modern
Book SynopsisAndrea Gabor recounts the development of modern business through the lives, times and ideas of the great thinkers - people such as Peter Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, Alfred Sloan, Abraham Maslow - who defined the art and science of business. The Capitalist Philosophers is an engaging introduction to the great core ideas of management, full of colourful stories and brilliant insights into why the business world is the way it is today. Andrea Gabor explores the ideas and personalities that have shaped not only twentieth century business, but that also have helped make the corporation a pivotal institution in society today, such as: McNamara''s pioneering work in the use of quantitative methods to control the finances at Ford, techniques that, for better and for worse had such a great influence on American management following World War II. The book traces the development of both scientific and humanistic tradition from the beginning of the century and follows the battleTrade Review"Gabora s selection is sound and she succeeds in revealing the individual behind the reputation." (Modern Management, October 2000) "It is a book full of colourful stories and brilliant insights into why the business world is the way it is today." (Business Executive, October 2000) "It should be recommended reading for every student of business history" (Business History, July 2001) "This is a very good book that provides a useful insight into the personalities responsible for the way we conduct business today." (Long Range Planning, Vol.34, 2001)Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chp1: Frederick Winslow Taylor - The Father of Scientific Management. Chp2: Mary Parker Follett: The Mother of Post Scientific Management. Chp3: Chester Barnard: The Philosopher King of American Management. Chp4: Fritz Roethlisberger and Elton Mayo: Two Creative Misfits Who Invented "Human Relations". Chp5: Robert McNamara and the Bean Counters. Chp6: Abraham Maslow & Douglas McGregor: From Human Relations to the Frontiers of System Dynamics. Chp7: W. Edward Deming and the Prophets of the Learning Organization. Chp8: Herbert A. Simon: The Needle and the Haystack. Chp9: Alfred Chandler and Alfred Sloan: The Historian & The CEO. Chp10: Peter F Drucker: The Big Idea Man.
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University of California Press Hollywood
Book SynopsisBlaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the newspaper Paris-Soir. This book records Cendrars' experiences on Hollywood's streets and at its studios and hottest clubs.
£38.25
University of California Press Ernest Mercier
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Harvard University Press True Story
Book SynopsisFocusing on Bernarr Macfadden, a bodybuilder turned publishing mogul, Shanon Fitzpatrick charts the rise and export of US mass media and consumer culture. Macfadden’s magazines—featuring fitness tips, celebrity gossip, and sensational “true” stories—created an enduring editorial template and powered worldwide demand for interactive American media.Trade ReviewRichly detailed and well-argued…Fitzpatrick has mined a fresh seam in the quarry of American periodical history, and by setting it in a new, global, context, she reveals a moment in the formation of a global media culture. -- Amy Aronson * American Journalism *A stimulating rewriting of the history of Macfadden’s media pulp empire…Makes a compelling argument about what factors shaped the interactive, confessional, and dynamic culture that makes up the U.S. mass media landscape we live in at present. -- Hana Vega * International Journal of Communication *Fitzpatrick’s book at once recuperates the forgotten origins of physical culture and contextualizes it within the media culture that it traveled, adding crucial texture to our understanding of media that explicitly tailored itself to nonelite readerships. -- Donal Harris * American Literary History *A lively, engrossing, and often funny history of Bernarr Macfadden and the publishing empire he built. Fitzpatrick tells the story of his journey from hungry orphan weakling to famous bodybuilder, patriarch, promoter of ‘physical culture,’ and publishing magnate. Though long overlooked as a purveyor of low-class, ephemeral pulp, Macfadden achieved unsurpassed newsstand sales, connected with leaders such as FDR, Mussolini, and the Pope, and represented American culture to millions of readers around the world. Fitzpatrick’s work provides insights into strongmen—understood both literally and figuratively—and their popular appeal, and readers today will see the unmistakable legacy of his media in the Trump era and beyond. -- Kristin L. Hoganson, author of The Heartland: An American HistoryAbsolutely original. Fitzpatrick deftly travels from the Victorian world of the mid-nineteenth century to the doorstep of our time to tell Macfadden’s story. Her book brims with insights into the changing, everyday understandings of bodies, sex, material status, and the individual’s place in a social world people found too vast to perceive and difficult to comprehend. Fitzpatrick shows how Macfadden’s work, from celebrating celebrity bodies to enlisting readers to create the content to be sold back to them, laid the foundations for today’s media world. -- Charles F. McGovern, author of Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945
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Harvard University Press Walter Lippmann
Book SynopsisUnemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows.Trade ReviewIt is unusual for a historical narrative to feature a journalist. Yet…Goodwin employs the writings of the once-famous newspaper columnist Walter Lippmann to describe the fervid U.S. debates that began with the 1929 stock-market crash. The device works beautifully. Lippmann, who wrote from 1931 to 1967, was so prolific, and his correspondence with other thinkers and decision makers was so cogent and extensive, that his oeuvre provides excellent material for examining a crucial moment in American history and essential aspects of the American economy, as hotly debated today as in Lippmann’s time…[An] insightful chronicle. -- George Melloan * Wall Street Journal *An excellent study of the man who was probably the most influential economics columnist and commentator of his era, even though he is not usually remembered as such. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *This is a timely biography. Lippmann’s concern to navigate through the real complexities and uncertainties of a transitional, even revolutionary, economic era while avoiding the appealing, easy answers was admirable… Lippmann is well worth re-discovering as we continue through our own period of economic and political upheaval, and this book sheds light on what made him an important figure who deserves to be better known. -- Diane Coyle * Enlightened Economist *From the early 1920s until the mid-1960s, Walter Lippmann was among the most prominent American public intellectuals, a sought-after adviser to politicians and the author of many books and more than a thousand articles and columns for The New Republic, the Herald Tribune, and The Washington Post. Goodwin’s worthy book serves to remind readers that Lippmann was more than a mere pundit. -- Richard N. Cooper * Foreign Affairs *A fascinating glimpse into the workings of a brilliant mind striving mightily to understand the changing world around him and explain it to his readers… In splendid detail, Goodwin traces the process by which Lippmann, influenced by so many different minds from so many different fields, assumed the role that became his mission, that of public economist… No brief summary can do justice to either the richness of Lippmann’s ideas and prose or the skill with which Goodwin has woven his account of them. Quoting Lippmann liberally, the author does a masterful job of meshing disparate elements of material into a coherent narrative with a clarity that matches Lippmann’s own style… Goodwin’s superb work offers readers a fascinating guided tour across the landscape of one of the most unique and fertile minds of our time. -- Maury Klein * Harvard Business Review *Walter Lippmann set an unmatched standard for a journalist interpreting (and leavening) expert opinion to newspaper readers in the middle third of the twentieth century. He introduced Keynesian macroeconomics to the generation of the New Deal but never lost interest in markets themselves. He precipitated the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society after World War II but declined to join. And he remained on top of the story well into the Sixties, when the New Economics actually became public policy. It was a golden age. Craufurd Goodwin, who in the forty years that followed became the dean of the history of economic thought in America, has reanimated Lippmann and his approach with an eye to its many lessons for the present day. -- David Warsh, economicprincipals.comAnyone interested in the great economic and political events of the middle of the last century will have encountered Walter Lippmann. The prolific journalist and public intellectual wrote regular newspaper columns and numerous books wrestling with the challenges of economic depression, war, and reconstruction. In this volume, Goodwin provides a synthesis of the evolution of Lippmann’s views on economic issues… Goodwin concludes this fascinating volume with a brief chapter summing up Lippmann’s importance in creating the role of the public intellectual in economic policy. -- J. L. Rosenbloom * Choice *An insightful biography of esteemed journalist and philosopher Walter Lippmann…Opening up new perspectives on past political debates, Goodwin delivers a finely limned portrait of a man whose career was based on standards and purposes that seem to have largely disappeared from public life. * Kirkus Reviews *We have many pundits and probably too many economists. But we have no Walter Lippmann, and Craufurd D. Goodwin’s wonderful biography of the great journalist shows us why this is a tragedy. Lippmann was the voice of the profound generalist fighting the damaging defenders of meaningless abstraction. This is a fascinating book that reminds us how much better public commentary on the economy can be than it is today. -- Jeff Madrick, author of Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
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Princeton University Press Worldly Philosopher
Book SynopsisWorldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Ollie Rehn One of Financial Times (Alphachat)'s Econ Books of the Year for 2013 One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Malcolm Gladwell Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers "[A] biography worthy of the man. Adelman brilliantly and beautifully brings Hirschman to life, giving us an unforgettable portrait of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary intellectuals... [M]agnificent."--Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker "[A] hugely engaging ... epic."--Justin Fox, New York Times Book Review "[An] astonishing and moving biography... Hirschman's work is more than interesting enough to justify a book (or two, or ten), but Adelman's achievement is to demonstrate, in novelistic detail, that he also lived an astounding life, full of narrow paths and ridiculously improbable twists and turns."--Cass Sunstein, New York Review of Books "[A] massive, erudite biography."--Roger Lowenstein, Wall Street Journal "[T]he winner [Enlightened Economist prize this year] is Jeremy Adelman's The Worldly Philosopher, a biography of Albert Hirschman. Hirschman's life story is extraordinary, and his early years make for a gripping tale. What I particularly enjoyed, though, was the portrait of an economist whose economics had a context in the realities of the countries Hirschman studied, their history and politics and culture, and in his wide reading in philosophy and other subjects... A worthy winner--congratulations to Professor Adelman!"--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist "This is the book I have looked forward to most all year and so far it does not disappoint."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "Adelman's engrossing biography illustrates how Hirschman's global background, natural linguistic ability, education, and worldly experiences shaped his thoughts and enabled his thinking 'outside the box' to arrive at original and often provocative ideas... Hirschman's story will appeal to many general readers, but especially to economists."--Library Journal "Worldly Philosopher will be the definitive work on Hirschman for some time... If you liked Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes, you will find Adelman's story of Hirschman's early life riveting--a book-club quality read... Worldly Philosopher is a prodigious piece of research, lovingly told and immensely worthwhile for the new light it sheds on the odyssey of a writer whose small ideas add up to major insights."--Robert Kuttner, American Prospect "Adelman's biography does a thorough job in shedding light not just on the academic and intellectual prowess of the great thinker, but also in informing the reader about the man whose life away from the intellectual world exhibited the same milieu of refreshing variety."--Prashanth Perumal, Mint "[T]he only official biography of one of our generation's most extraordinary thinkers."--City Book Review "Jeremy Adelman's outstanding biography ... should receive serious attention from prize committees when the best non-fiction works of 2013 are chosen... As Adelman makes eloquently clear, Hirschman ... was a great deal more than an economist or social scientist."--Stuart Mitchner, Princeton Magazine "[I]t is thanks only to this remarkable biography by Jeremy Adelman ... that we now have the first comprehensive view of the man and his work. Adelman writes with affection and respect and chronicles Hirschman's life through painstaking archival work, extensive interviews, and the examination of personal and professional papers. He brings the work alive by exploring the origins of Hirschman's achievements in the twists and turns of his life--a life, Adelman notes, that 'was a personal history of the twentieth century.'... [T]hanks to Adelman's magisterial biography, we can see how Hirschman's social science was informed and strengthened by his deeply moral and principled politics."--Seyla Benhabib, Democracy "Economics, philosophy, and more than 700 pages--oh my! That's one way to view Adelman's brilliant biography of economist-philosopher Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012). But like Hirschman himself, who took a skewed and often inventive look at nearly everything, there are many ways to describe and delight in this book... Adelman sensitively draws out this enlightening and heartening life, sketching in, along the way, the characters surrounding Hirschman. His wife, Sarah, was part of Hirschman's odyssey, and Adelman portrays her as not only capable but a smart, brave, discerning, and interesting person. Hirschman's primary field was economics, but he eschewed formulaic solutions to human problems, choosing instead aphoristic thinking and petites idees, as 'small things could provide big insights' (and throughout, wordsmith Adelman perceptively and astutely serves wordsmith Hirschman). Nearly every page of this book inspires thought or admiration or fear for the outcome or exultation at the revelations... A bright world of thought and viable enterprise opens before readers--including, perhaps especially, noneconomists--and it should not be missed."--Eloise Kinney, Booklist "Examining the life of a great intellectual living in extraordinary times, Jeremy Adelman has produced a special kind of biography... Adelman beautifully captures Hirschman's intellectual temperament, not only by describing it but also by crafting a book that recapitulates it. Worldly Philosopher is a book of rhymes, in which Hirschman's writing recalls his personal experience, early and late projects betray enduring habits of mind, and Adelman's own judgment and style bear traces of his subject's... Adelman's proximity to Hirschman allows him to interpret a public record that is extensive but opaque, and the resulting book is a sympathetic, internal account of a life complex enough to profit from such treatment. For anyone who knows one part of Hirschman's life, the book opens entire worlds. For anyone who has pored over his cryptic papers, Adelman's mastery of them is revelatory. Worldly Philosopher not only explains Hirschman from the inside out, it gives the reader a taste of his style as a writer: his eye for beauty, love of literature, and sheer range... Worldly Philosopher is, as promised, a sweeping history of the world, and a highly personal one."--Amy C. Offner, Public Books "Adelman provides a masterful biography of one of the most remarkable economists of the 20th century, Albert O. Hirschman. Any one of Hirschman's many lives would provide ample fodder for an interesting book... [Worldly Philosopher] is obviously a labor of love, in which Adelman painstakingly reconstructs Hirschman's private and intellectual life."--Choice "Worldly Philosopher is a major contribution to our understanding of the history of twentieth-century social science, and a sympathetic tribute to a man who struggled against personal adversity and who strove to improve the opportunities of ordinary people to live successfully in the face of massive adversity."--Bryan S. Turner, Sociological Review "This is a wonderful book about a superb political economist. Adelman invested many years in this admiring biography, which allows readers to fully appreciate the diversity of Albert Hirschman's many contributions to economic scholarship... Hirschman possessed a unique ability to shift from the particular to the general and projected an implicit optimism about humanity's prospects."--Albert Fishlow, Foreign Affairs "Adelman's richly detailed and highly readable biography provides a valuable introduction to the life and work of a scholar who was unmoved by the proclivity of economists and other social scientists to draw sweeping conclusions from simplified assumptions."--Michael McPherson, Journal of Economic Literature "This is the first major account of Hirschman's remarkable life, and a tale of the twentieth century as seen through the story of an astute and passionate observer. Adelman's riveting narrative traces how Hirschman's personal experiences shaped his unique intellectual perspective, and how his enduring legacy is one of hope, open-mindedness, and practical idealism."--World Book Industry "In Worldly Philosopher, Jeremy Adelman offers a brilliant--and brilliantly detailed--portrait of Hirschman, making a convincing case for his place among the giants of twentieth-century social science. After reading Adelman's biography, one is hard pressed to come up with a social scientist who led a richer, fuller, or more meaningful life."--Peter A. Coclanis, HAHR "This is a good book from many different stand points... Many readers will find Worldly Philosopher to be longer than it needs to be, although they would presumably give conflicting opinions about what ought to have been cut, depending on whether they were interested in the book mainly as a summary of Hirschman's ideas, as the life story of a fascinating person, or as a discussion of changing tendencies in modern intellectual, political, and economic life. The book is all of these things and well worth reading for any of them."--Woodruff D. Smith, American Historical Review "Jeremy Adelman has written a wonderful book, one worthy of its subject and that is high praise... Adelman demonstrates the importance of situating an author sociologically as well as historically in his times, of understanding the practical experience--including the experience of research--that gave rise to his ideas, and more generally grasping the relationship between his work and the rest of his life... The beauty of this book is that Albert Hirschman comes alive as a man and an author."--Craig Calhoun, Contemporary Sociology "Worldly Philosopher is an outstanding literary achievement that provides insight into the life of one of the twentieth century's most important social scientists. Jeremy Adelman tells his story in an entertaining and compelling style. In conjunction with The Essential Hirschman, it should go some way toward ensuring that Hirschman's ideas continue to be discussed throughout the twenty-first century."--Adrian Walsh, Australian Book Review "Adelman's lengthy life of Hirschman is intrinsically interesting to anyone concerned with the twentieth century in Europe and the Americas."--Robert W. Frizzell, Yearbook of German Studies "This beautifully written biography of German-born economist Albert O. Hirschman is well worth reading for its insights into a man who experienced the political events that gave birth to today's world, saw the flawed ideologies that got us to where we are now, and saw how to identify and avoid those ideologies that might lead us astray in the future."--William J. Bernstein, Financial Analyst Journal "Worldly Philosopher is beautifully written and is well worth reading as the biography of a man who experienced, as fully as anyone could, the political events that gave birth to today's world and who saw, as clearly as anyone could, the flawed ideologies that got us to where we are now--and, most critically, saw how to identify and avoid those ideologies that might lead us astray in the future."--William J. Bernstein, Enterprising Investor "[A] magnificent investigation and an essential contribution to global research, written in most enjoyable prose ... innovative and unsurpassed."--Annie Cohen-Solal, Times Higher Education "[A] magnificent biography."--Lourdes Sola, European Review of International Studies "Adelman has written an outstanding book whose depth, breadth, and insight mirrors Hirschman's own."--Daniel Bessner, Chicago Journals "Albert Hirschman's many fans will enjoy this absorbing biography of his life and work."--Roger Sandilands, Journal of the History of Economic Thought "[A] magnificent exposition."--Joseph Mali, European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction Mots Justes 1 1 The Garden 16 2 Berlin Is Burning 52 3 Proving Hamlet Wrong 85 4 The Hour of Courage 119 5 Crossings 153 6 Of Guns and Butter 187 7 The Last Battle 219 8 The Anthill 252 9 The Biography of a File 284 10 Colombia Years 295 11 Following My Truth 325 12 The Empirical Lantern 353 13 Sing the Epic 382 14 The God Who Helped 415 15 The Cold Monster 455 16 Man, the Stage 489 17 Body Parts 525 18 Disappointment 531 19 Social Science for Our Grandchildren 567 20 Reliving the Present 599 Conclusion Marc Chagall's Kiss 639 Afterword Sailing into the Wind 653 Notes 659 Bibliographic Essay 699 Index 709
£31.50
Princeton University Press Worldly Philosopher
Book SynopsisWorldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Ollie Rehn One of Financial Times (Alphachat)'s Econ Books of the Year for 2013 One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Malcolm Gladwell Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers "[A] biography worthy of the man. Adelman brilliantly and beautifully brings Hirschman to life, giving us an unforgettable portrait of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary intellectuals... [M]agnificent."--Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker "[A] hugely engaging ... epic."--Justin Fox, New York Times Book Review "[An] astonishing and moving biography... Hirschman's work is more than interesting enough to justify a book (or two, or ten), but Adelman's achievement is to demonstrate, in novelistic detail, that he also lived an astounding life, full of narrow paths and ridiculously improbable twists and turns."--Cass Sunstein, New York Review of Books "[A] massive, erudite biography."--Roger Lowenstein, Wall Street Journal "[T]he winner [Enlightened Economist prize this year] is Jeremy Adelman's The Worldly Philosopher, a biography of Albert Hirschman. Hirschman's life story is extraordinary, and his early years make for a gripping tale. What I particularly enjoyed, though, was the portrait of an economist whose economics had a context in the realities of the countries Hirschman studied, their history and politics and culture, and in his wide reading in philosophy and other subjects... A worthy winner--congratulations to Professor Adelman!"--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist "This is the book I have looked forward to most all year and so far it does not disappoint."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "Adelman's engrossing biography illustrates how Hirschman's global background, natural linguistic ability, education, and worldly experiences shaped his thoughts and enabled his thinking 'outside the box' to arrive at original and often provocative ideas... Hirschman's story will appeal to many general readers, but especially to economists."--Library Journal "Worldly Philosopher will be the definitive work on Hirschman for some time... If you liked Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes, you will find Adelman's story of Hirschman's early life riveting--a book-club quality read... Worldly Philosopher is a prodigious piece of research, lovingly told and immensely worthwhile for the new light it sheds on the odyssey of a writer whose small ideas add up to major insights."--Robert Kuttner, American Prospect "Adelman's biography does a thorough job in shedding light not just on the academic and intellectual prowess of the great thinker, but also in informing the reader about the man whose life away from the intellectual world exhibited the same milieu of refreshing variety."--Prashanth Perumal, Mint "[T]he only official biography of one of our generation's most extraordinary thinkers."--City Book Review "Jeremy Adelman's outstanding biography ... should receive serious attention from prize committees when the best non-fiction works of 2013 are chosen... As Adelman makes eloquently clear, Hirschman ... was a great deal more than an economist or social scientist."--Stuart Mitchner, Princeton Magazine "[I]t is thanks only to this remarkable biography by Jeremy Adelman ... that we now have the first comprehensive view of the man and his work. Adelman writes with affection and respect and chronicles Hirschman's life through painstaking archival work, extensive interviews, and the examination of personal and professional papers. He brings the work alive by exploring the origins of Hirschman's achievements in the twists and turns of his life--a life, Adelman notes, that 'was a personal history of the twentieth century.'... [T]hanks to Adelman's magisterial biography, we can see how Hirschman's social science was informed and strengthened by his deeply moral and principled politics."--Seyla Benhabib, Democracy "Economics, philosophy, and more than 700 pages--oh my! That's one way to view Adelman's brilliant biography of economist-philosopher Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012). But like Hirschman himself, who took a skewed and often inventive look at nearly everything, there are many ways to describe and delight in this book... Adelman sensitively draws out this enlightening and heartening life, sketching in, along the way, the characters surrounding Hirschman. His wife, Sarah, was part of Hirschman's odyssey, and Adelman portrays her as not only capable but a smart, brave, discerning, and interesting person. Hirschman's primary field was economics, but he eschewed formulaic solutions to human problems, choosing instead aphoristic thinking and petites idees, as 'small things could provide big insights' (and throughout, wordsmith Adelman perceptively and astutely serves wordsmith Hirschman). Nearly every page of this book inspires thought or admiration or fear for the outcome or exultation at the revelations... A bright world of thought and viable enterprise opens before readers--including, perhaps especially, noneconomists--and it should not be missed."--Eloise Kinney, Booklist "Examining the life of a great intellectual living in extraordinary times, Jeremy Adelman has produced a special kind of biography... Adelman beautifully captures Hirschman's intellectual temperament, not only by describing it but also by crafting a book that recapitulates it. Worldly Philosopher is a book of rhymes, in which Hirschman's writing recalls his personal experience, early and late projects betray enduring habits of mind, and Adelman's own judgment and style bear traces of his subject's... Adelman's proximity to Hirschman allows him to interpret a public record that is extensive but opaque, and the resulting book is a sympathetic, internal account of a life complex enough to profit from such treatment. For anyone who knows one part of Hirschman's life, the book opens entire worlds. For anyone who has pored over his cryptic papers, Adelman's mastery of them is revelatory. Worldly Philosopher not only explains Hirschman from the inside out, it gives the reader a taste of his style as a writer: his eye for beauty, love of literature, and sheer range... Worldly Philosopher is, as promised, a sweeping history of the world, and a highly personal one."--Amy C. Offner, Public Books "Adelman provides a masterful biography of one of the most remarkable economists of the 20th century, Albert O. Hirschman. Any one of Hirschman's many lives would provide ample fodder for an interesting book... [Worldly Philosopher] is obviously a labor of love, in which Adelman painstakingly reconstructs Hirschman's private and intellectual life."--Choice "Worldly Philosopher is a major contribution to our understanding of the history of twentieth-century social science, and a sympathetic tribute to a man who struggled against personal adversity and who strove to improve the opportunities of ordinary people to live successfully in the face of massive adversity."--Bryan S. Turner, Sociological Review "This is a wonderful book about a superb political economist. Adelman invested many years in this admiring biography, which allows readers to fully appreciate the diversity of Albert Hirschman's many contributions to economic scholarship... Hirschman possessed a unique ability to shift from the particular to the general and projected an implicit optimism about humanity's prospects."--Albert Fishlow, Foreign Affairs "Adelman's richly detailed and highly readable biography provides a valuable introduction to the life and work of a scholar who was unmoved by the proclivity of economists and other social scientists to draw sweeping conclusions from simplified assumptions."--Michael McPherson, Journal of Economic Literature "This is the first major account of Hirschman's remarkable life, and a tale of the twentieth century as seen through the story of an astute and passionate observer. Adelman's riveting narrative traces how Hirschman's personal experiences shaped his unique intellectual perspective, and how his enduring legacy is one of hope, open-mindedness, and practical idealism."--World Book Industry "In Worldly Philosopher, Jeremy Adelman offers a brilliant--and brilliantly detailed--portrait of Hirschman, making a convincing case for his place among the giants of twentieth-century social science. After reading Adelman's biography, one is hard pressed to come up with a social scientist who led a richer, fuller, or more meaningful life."--Peter A. Coclanis, HAHR "This is a good book from many different stand points... Many readers will find Worldly Philosopher to be longer than it needs to be, although they would presumably give conflicting opinions about what ought to have been cut, depending on whether they were interested in the book mainly as a summary of Hirschman's ideas, as the life story of a fascinating person, or as a discussion of changing tendencies in modern intellectual, political, and economic life. The book is all of these things and well worth reading for any of them."--Woodruff D. Smith, American Historical Review "Jeremy Adelman has written a wonderful book, one worthy of its subject and that is high praise... Adelman demonstrates the importance of situating an author sociologically as well as historically in his times, of understanding the practical experience--including the experience of research--that gave rise to his ideas, and more generally grasping the relationship between his work and the rest of his life... The beauty of this book is that Albert Hirschman comes alive as a man and an author."--Craig Calhoun, Contemporary Sociology "Worldly Philosopher is an outstanding literary achievement that provides insight into the life of one of the twentieth century's most important social scientists. Jeremy Adelman tells his story in an entertaining and compelling style. In conjunction with The Essential Hirschman, it should go some way toward ensuring that Hirschman's ideas continue to be discussed throughout the twenty-first century."--Adrian Walsh, Australian Book Review "Adelman's lengthy life of Hirschman is intrinsically interesting to anyone concerned with the twentieth century in Europe and the Americas."--Robert W. Frizzell, Yearbook of German Studies "This beautifully written biography of German-born economist Albert O. Hirschman is well worth reading for its insights into a man who experienced the political events that gave birth to today's world, saw the flawed ideologies that got us to where we are now, and saw how to identify and avoid those ideologies that might lead us astray in the future."--William J. Bernstein, Financial Analyst Journal "Worldly Philosopher is beautifully written and is well worth reading as the biography of a man who experienced, as fully as anyone could, the political events that gave birth to today's world and who saw, as clearly as anyone could, the flawed ideologies that got us to where we are now--and, most critically, saw how to identify and avoid those ideologies that might lead us astray in the future."--William J. Bernstein, Enterprising Investor "[A] magnificent investigation and an essential contribution to global research, written in most enjoyable prose ... innovative and unsurpassed."--Annie Cohen-Solal, Times Higher Education "[A] magnificent biography."--Lourdes Sola, European Review of International Studies "Adelman has written an outstanding book whose depth, breadth, and insight mirrors Hirschman's own."--Daniel Bessner, Chicago Journals "Albert Hirschman's many fans will enjoy this absorbing biography of his life and work."--Roger Sandilands, Journal of the History of Economic Thought "[A] magnificent exposition."--Joseph Mali, European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction Mots Justes 1 1 The Garden 16 2 Berlin Is Burning 52 3 Proving Hamlet Wrong 85 4 The Hour of Courage 119 5 Crossings 153 6 Of Guns and Butter 187 7 The Last Battle 219 8 The Anthill 252 9 The Biography of a File 284 10 Colombia Years 295 11 Following My Truth 325 12 The Empirical Lantern 353 13 Sing the Epic 382 14 The God Who Helped 415 15 The Cold Monster 455 16 Man, the Stage 489 17 Body Parts 525 18 Disappointment 531 19 Social Science for Our Grandchildren 567 20 Reliving the Present 599 Conclusion Marc Chagall's Kiss 639 Afterword Sailing into the Wind 653 Notes 659 Bibliographic Essay 699 Index 709
£22.50
John Wiley & Sons Inc Peter Drucker
Book SynopsisA Definitive Overview of Peter Drucker''s Contributions to Management Flaherty has accomplished the impossible: making a systematic thinker out of me. I am particularly impressed by his skill in balancing chronology and themes, and that over a sixty-year time span. I have learned a great deal about my work from this book. Peter F. Drucker Peter F. Drucker is the organizational thought leader of the twentieth century. For the sake of our economy, our community, and our society, every citizen needs to be familiar with his work. John Flaherty''s book is both an intellectual adventure and a practical guide to Peter Drucker''s thinking. Peter Drucker: Shaping the Managerial Mind should be in the book bag of everyone hoping to lead change or build an effective organization. Frances Hesselbein, chairman of the board, The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management At last! This much-needed comprehensive review of Drucker''s thTable of ContentsPreface 1 Introduction 1 2 Formative Years 5 Part 1 Discovering Modern Management 3 The End of Economic Man 19 4 The Future of Industrial Man 30 5 Concept of the Corporation 52 6 Establishing the Fundamentals 72 Part 2 On Strategy and Entrepreneurship 7 Managing Change 99 8 The Entrepreneurial Process 118 9 Investing in Change 138 10 Strategies for the Transitional Business 159 11 Tactics and Transformation 189 Part 3 On Executive Effectiveness 12 Managing in the Knowledge Society 227 13 Approaches to Effectiveness 248 14 Leadership and the Job of the Executive 271 15 Contribution, Commitment, and Concentration 292 16 Time, Strengths, and Communication 321 17 The Decision-Making Process 347 Conclusion 373 Notes 385 Published Work of Peter Drucker 407 Bibliography 415 The Author 421 Index 423
£25.59
Stanford University Press Bernie Madoff and the Crisis
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Eren crafts a narrative of Bernie Madoff's crimes as a sweeping comment on our society at large, which created and upheld the kill-or-be-killed finance ethos, and thereby produced the twenty-first century version of a Wall Street serial killer."—Erin Arvedlund, author of Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff"There is important primary data here and a creative analysis. Eren makes a notable contribution to the literature on financial crime, as well as our understanding of the role that the Madoff case played during an unfolding financial crisis."—Kitty Calavita, University of California, Irvine, author of Big Money Crime"Eren uses massive amounts of media commentary and interviews—with journalists and Madoff himself—to reveal salient points about the contemporary economy, society, and its demonology. An easy read, and an informative one as we continue to sift through the ashes of the financial crisis and our societal stance on white collar crime."—Michael Levi, Cardiff University and author of The Phantom Capitalists and Regulating Fraud"Eren provides the first investigation of why the crimes of Wall Street and Madoff—though economically and legally dissimilar—were culturally inseparable to the public. Steeped in the voices of reporters, regulators, and Bernie himself, this book is a major contribution to the study of white-collar crime."—Gregg Barak, Eastern Michigan University, author of Theft of a Nation: Wall Street Looting and Federal Regulatory Colluding"Bernie Madoff and the Crisis<\i> is an engaging, insightful and thought-provoking book. Its theoretical lens and empirical design should inspire future research on social reactions to white-collar crime, also of the more mundane kind. The book will be appealing to a wide readership."—Aleksandra Jordanoska, British Journal of Criminology<\i>"Bernie Madoff and the Crisis is a brief, engaging book that reminds readers about the complexity of social and economic problems and the mistake in simplifying them and thinking that criminal law alone can resolve them."—David Schultz, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice BooksTable of Contents1. A Crisis in Search of a Villain 2. Out of the Business Section, Into the Front Pages 3. Sleeping Watchdogs: Blaming the Regulators 4. It's How You're Rich That Matters: Narratives of the Haves, the Have Nots, and Have Lots 5. Boil Him in Oil: Cracking Down on Wall Street through Madoff 6. The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same?
£91.80
