{"product_id":"power-failure-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-american-icon-hardcover","title":"Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam D. Cohan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2022 - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2022 - \u003ci\u003eThe Economist \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of 2022 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe dramatic rise--and unimaginable fall--of America's most iconic corporation by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we take for granted today, nearly everything from the lightbulb to the jet engine. GE also built a cult of financial and leadership success envied across the globe and became the world's most valuable and most admired company. But even at the height of its prestige and influence, cracks were forming in its formidable foundation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a masterful re-appraisal of a company that once claimed to \"bring good things to life,\" pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan argues that the incredible story of GE's rise and fall is not only a paragon, but also a prism through which we can better understand American capitalism. Beginning with its founding, innovations, and exponential growth through acquisitions and mergers, Cohan plumbs the depths of GE's storied management culture, its pioneering doctrine of shareholder value, and its seemingly hidden blind spots, to reveal that GE wasn't immune from the hubris and avoidable mistakes suffered by many other corporations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePower Failure\u003c\/i\u003e, Cohan punctures the myth of GE, exploring in a rich narrative how a once-great company wound up broken and in tatters--a cautionary tale for the ages.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former Wall Street investment banker for seventeen years, \u003cb\u003eWilliam D. Cohan\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Silence, Money and Power, House of Cards, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Tycoons, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the 2007 FT\/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. He also wrote \u003ci\u003eFour Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhy Wall Street Matters\u003c\/i\u003e. He was a longtime special correspondent at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e and is a founding partner of \u003ci\u003ePuck\u003c\/i\u003e, a new digital media venture. He writes often for the opinion pages of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times and The Financial Times \u003c\/i\u003eand he is\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea writer at large for\u003ci\u003e AirMail.\u003c\/i\u003e Over the years, he has also written fo\u003ci\u003er Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, The Atlantic, Institutional Investor, The New York Times, The Nation, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. Cohan is a graduate of Duke University, the Columbia University School of Journalism, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 816\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.2 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766029025568,"sku":"9780593084168","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/95ac439a8c617d516f90b33fc5031a6c.webp?v=1780284379","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/power-failure-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-american-icon-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}