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The story of the ghostwriting of Alfred P. Sloan's best-selling memoir, General Motor'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 an 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 1920s and 1930s.What has been largely unknown until now is that 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 the 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.

Automobile industry and trade --- Industrial management --- Industries --- Business & Economics --- Management --- Sloan, Alfred P. --- General Motors Corporation --- History. --- Automotive industry --- Dzheneral motors --- G.M.C. --- General Motors --- General Motors Corp. --- GM --- GMC --- Motor vehicle industry --- Elmore Manufacturing Company --- General Motors Company --- BUSINESS/Management --- Motors Liquidation Company

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This book will change the way Americans think about their cities. It provides a comprehensive economic and social history of urban America since 1950, tracing cycles of urban growth, urban crisis, and positive urban rebirth.

Cities and towns --- Urban renewal --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban sociology --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Urban policy --- History. --- United States --- Race relations --- Villes --- Rénovation urbaine --- Sociologie urbaine --- Histoire --- Etats-Unis --- Relations raciales