The View From The Fortieth Floor

beige 2 tone leatherette looking covers – red titling on spine – IBM type punch card details on covers – interior clean/deckle edge pages red wash top of book – small amount of wearing on edges/head what book. Corners rubbed/bumped –A business novel with a difference,An empire totters - on its survival hung the careers of thousands of frightened employees, the savings of small stockholders. On its death rested the cold ambitions of the shrewd & ruthless money-men, the bankers& speculators. Between the two stood John Ridgely Warren - touched by ruthlessness & power-lust- a man of compassion and conscience. Ridge Warren had to choose whether to be the great company's rescuer - or its executioner. a central character for whom one had little respect at the start, grew in stature as the challenge of events overwhelmed him. In this case the man in Warren, who has been brought to New York from a top job in Washington to bring to life two dying magazines, part of a network that had once been powerful. To Warren it all seemed a mechanical problem:- production, circulation, advertising- and then something to say. But it wasn't enough, as friends of the old order tried to tell him. It took perilous teetering on the edge of bankruptcy; risky manipulation of funds, yes, even Social Security reserves; stalling off of clamoring creditors, their unpaid bills soaring into the millions; cozening the sources of Big Money; pursuing the will-o-the-wisp of benefactors, willing to take the long gamble. And perhaps, hardest of all, withstanding the blandishments, the temptations offered by those who stood to gain if the magazines folded, and could milk the ultimate profits from stock transactions, and were willing to close their eyes to human sacrifice. And throughout the struggle one traces many threads of subplots, involving the workers- and their ultimate stand for their rights, their security, their identity as people who had given a lifetime of service to the dying magazines. But White never makes one feel that it was all worth it, except in human terms. The story is really the life- and death -- of The Trumpet. Pictures included for your review – aid decision process--Ruth Reaser..LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City-sent media mail –- questions can be answered via customer service phone or customer emailing message services -gift delivery instructions-alternative expedited deliveries need to be requested & adjusted price wise...-you get the copy you were viewing carefully packed to protect it from damage in transit. The View From The Fortieth Floor -White,Theodore H.– H/C: 468 pages Publisher: William Sloane Associates Inc.– book club –edition -1960-dust jacket missing Ruth Reaser..LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City - The View From The Fortieth Floor Hardcover – 1960