Rise & Fall Conglomerate

by Robert Sobel

Book Overview

The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings is the behind-the-scenes story of the financial wizards and bare-knuckled businessmen who created the conglomerates, the glamorous multiform companies that marked the high noon of post-World War II American capitalism. Covering the period from the end of the war to 1983, Robert Sobel explains why and how the conglomerate movement originated, how it mush roomed, and what caused its startling and rapid decline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812829611
• ISBN13: 9780812829617
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Stein and Day
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.