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A Corporate Tragedy: The Agony of International Harvester Company

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Having had aunts and uncles go through the great downfall of this corporation and being a current employee of the old IH, I felt it necessary to read this book and was not disappointed. Most people may find it dry and boring but I found it very informative. I can now understand what brought down a great company back when I was too young to understand. Bravo to the author.

A very readable book, every bit as captivating as 'Barbarians At the Gate' and another example where truth can be more intriguing than fiction.

Any person, with even a casual interest in International Harvester, Caterpillar or John Deere, will find this book every bit as interesting...

".....A Corporate Tragedy,

the startling and revealing book that brings sharply into focus the story of one company's disastrous mismanagement....

and A VITAL LESSON FOR ALL AMERICANS IN BUSINESS who think ---

like the ill-fated Harvester did ---

that it could never happen to them...."

-from Barbara Marsh, A Corporate Tragedy

[from the back of jacket]

A great read for anyone who is interested in what happened to what was once one of America's mighty titans of industry . It starts with how Harvester was founded in the mid 1800's and proceeds to tell the whole story right up to the collapse in the early 1980's . Very interesting book .