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- catalog abstract "The ghostwriter of Alfred Sloan's best-selling memoir tells his own story, including General Motors's attempts to block the book's publication and the author's eventual triumph over the corporation. Published in 1964, my years with General Motors was in immediate best-seller and today is considered one of the few classic books on management. The book is the ghostwritten memoir of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1875-1966), whose business and management strategies enabled General Motors to overtake Ford as the dominant American automobile manufacturer in the 1920's and 1930's. What has been largely unknown until now is the my years with General Motors was almost not published. Although it was written with the permission of General Motors-and slated for publication in October 1959-at the last minute General Motors tried to suppress the book out of fears that some of the material in it could become evidence in an antitrust action against the company. This book, by John McDonald, Sloan's ghostwriter, tells the behind-the-scenes story of the book's writing, its attempted suppression, and the lawsuit that eventually led to its publication. McDonald's narrative is partly the David-and -Goliath story of a lone journalist taking on the world's then-largest corporation and partly a study of strategy in its own right. McDonald's struggle to publish the book led him to navigate a complicated course among th competing interests of General Motors, Fortune magazine (his employer), and Time, Inc. (Fortune's owner.) In many ways this "book about the book" parallels the Sloan book as a tale of successful, brilliantly planned strategy.".
- catalog contributor b12473998.
- catalog contributor b12473999.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments -- Foreword: who was John McDonald? -- I. The making of My years with General Motors -- II. Suppression -- III. Publication -- Epilogue -- Index.".
- catalog description "The ghostwriter of Alfred Sloan's best-selling memoir tells his own story, including General Motors's attempts to block the book's publication and the author's eventual triumph over the corporation. Published in 1964, my years with General Motors was in immediate best-seller and today is considered one of the few classic books on management. The book is the ghostwritten memoir of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1875-1966), whose business and management strategies enabled General Motors to overtake Ford as the dominant American automobile manufacturer in the 1920's and 1930's. What has been largely unknown until now is the my years with General Motors was almost not published. Although it was written with the permission of General Motors-and slated for publication in October 1959-at the last minute General Motors tried to suppress the book out of fears that some of the material in it could become evidence in an antitrust action against the company. This book, by John McDonald, Sloan's ghostwriter, tells the behind-the-scenes story of the book's writing, its attempted suppression, and the lawsuit that eventually led to its publication. McDonald's narrative is partly the David-and -Goliath story of a lone journalist taking on the world's then-largest corporation and partly a study of strategy in its own right. McDonald's struggle to publish the book led him to navigate a complicated course among th competing interests of General Motors, Fortune magazine (his employer), and Time, Inc. (Fortune's owner.) In many ways this "book about the book" parallels the Sloan book as a tale of successful, brilliantly planned strategy.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 202 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0262134101 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "338.7/6292/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Automobile industry and trade United States Management Case studies.".
- catalog subject "General Motors Corporation Management History.".
- catalog subject "HD9710.U54 G47467 2002".
- catalog subject "Industrial management United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966. My years with General Motors.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments -- Foreword: who was John McDonald? -- I. The making of My years with General Motors -- II. Suppression -- III. Publication -- Epilogue -- Index.".
- catalog title "A ghost's memoir : the making of Alfred P. Sloan's "My years with General Motors" / John McDonald.".
- catalog type "text".