Corporate Warrior: A Novel Based on the Life of Lee Iacocca [Hardcover]

Steven Madeline (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 23, 2005

Martin Iannelli was president of Cole Motors, one of the world’s largest and grandest corporations. Above him, the top floor of the office tower, were the private quarters of the company’s chairman, William Alistair Cole—known to many as King Cole.

Martin had risen from the poverty of immigrant Italian parents. It was a career climb that would happen only in America. He had lived his entire life to fulfill the dreams of those uneducated parents. He had been the top-of-the-class A-student, the Ivy-League-college valedictorian, and the stellar management trainee.

He had paid all the dues of a meteoric rise through executive ranks—hard work, long hours, political savvy and company loyalty. It had brought him to an enviable pinnacle; and provided unabashed admiration from his wife, son and daughter, mother and father. He had gained the respect of colleagues as well as competitors; the envy of business leaders everywhere, and the cheers of ordinary Americans who delighted in his underdog rise to the top.

But now this poor boy’s impossible dream would become an American executive nightmare. One that would shock the world. And it would bring crushing heartbreak onto a self-made man whose very signature was honor and pride.

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About the Author

Steven Madeline has been a newspaper writer, an English teacher, and a corporate communications director. He worked for Lee Iacocca as a speechwriter and corporate publicist and was also a military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (August 23, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595805574
• ISBN-13: 978-0595805570
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,485,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting peek into corporate shenanigans. This story is a classic, December 17, 2009

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This review is from: Corporate Warrior: A Novel Based on the Life of Lee Iacocca (Paperback)

This story is a classic case of paranoid jealousy that occurs when an heir to a business fortune is outwitted by a self-made rival from modest roots. Names are changed but easily identified characters include Lee Iacocca, Henry Ford II, Imelda Markcus, Roy Cohn, George Hamilton and various vice presidents of the Ford Motor Company in the 80's. Corporate treachery, illicit sex, and legal deceit keep you turning the pages to the surprising and uplifting end. -- Gene Prandine, Sterling Heights, Michigan.