Memoirs Of A Ghost

Author : John McDonald
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262632850
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Ghost's Memoir written by John McDonald and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the ghostwriting of Alfred P. Sloan's best-selling memoir, General Motor's attempts to block the book's publication, and the author's eventual triumph over the corporation. Published in 1964, My Years with General Motors was an immediate best-seller and today is considered one of the few classic books on management. The book is the ghostwritten memoir of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1875-1966), whose business and management strategies enabled General Motors to overtake Ford as the dominant American automobile manufacturer in the 1920s and 1930s. What has been largely unknown until now is that My Years with General Motors was almost not published. Although it was written with the permission of General Motors -- and slated for publication in October 1959 -- at the last minute General Motors tried to suppress the book out of fears that some of the material in it could become evidence in an antitrust action against the company. This book, by John McDonald, Sloan's ghostwriter, tells the behind-the-scenes story of the book's writing, its attempted suppression, and the lawsuit that eventually led to its publication. McDonald's narrative is partly the David-and-Goliath story of a lone journalist taking on the world's then-largest corporation and partly a study of strategy in its own right. McDonald's struggle to publish the book led him to navigate a complicated course among the competing interests of General Motors, Fortune magazine (his employer), and Time, Inc. (Fortune's owner). In many ways this "book about the book" parallels the Sloan book as a tale of successful, brilliantly planned strategy.

Author : Justin Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0593129296
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riding with the Ghost written by Justin Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Justin Taylor was thirty, his father, Larry, drove to the top of an airport parking garage to take his own life. Thanks to the intervention of family members, he was not successful, but the incident would forever transform how Justin thinks of his father, and how he thinks of himself as a son. Moving both backward and forward in time from that day, this book captures the past's power to shape, strengthen, and distort our visions of ourselves and each other. We see Larry as the middle child in a chilly Long Island family; as a beloved Little League coach who listens to kids with patience and curiosity; as an unemployed father struggling to keep his marriage together while battling long-term illness and depression. At the same time, this book explores how the work of confronting a family member's story forces a reckoning with your own. We see Justin as a teacher, modeling himself after his dad's best qualities; as a caregiver, attempting to provide his father with emotional and financial support, but not always succeeding; as a new husband, with a dawning awareness of his own depressive tendencies. With raw intimacy, this book lays bare the joys and burdens of loving a troubled family member. It's a memoir about fathers and sons, teachers and students, faith and illness, and the complicated legacy that each generation hands down to the next"--

Author : Donna M. Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101545186
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Ghost Girl written by Donna M. Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donna Johnson's remarkable story of being raised under the biggest gospel tent in the world, by David Terrell, one of the most famous evangelical ministers of the 1960s and 70s. Holy Ghost Girl is a compassionate, humorous exploration of faith, betrayal, and coming of age on the sawdust trail. She was just three years old when her mother signed on as the organist of tent revivalist David Terrell, and before long, Donna Johnson was part of the hugely popular evangelical preacher's inner circle. At seventeen, she left the ministry for good, with a trove of stranger- than-fiction memories. A homecoming like no other, Holy Ghost Girl brings to life miracles, exorcisms, and faceoffs with the Ku Klux Klan. And that's just what went on under the tent. As Terrell became known worldwide during the 1960s and '70s, the caravan of broken-down cars and trucks that made up his ministry evolved into fleets of Mercedes and airplanes. The glories of the Word mixed with betrayals of the flesh and Donna's mother bore Terrell's children in one of the several secret households he maintained. Thousands of followers, dubbed "Terrellites" by the press, left their homes to await the end of the world in cultlike communities. Jesus didn't show, but the IRS did, and the prophet/healer went to prison. Recounted with deadpan observations and surreal detail, Holy Ghost Girl bypasses easy judgment to articulate a rich world in which the mystery of faith and human frailty share a surprising and humorous coexistence.

Author : Kat Chow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781538716335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Ghosts written by Kat Chow and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 PICK * A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2021 PICK * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 * A HARPER'S BAZAAR BOOK YOU NEED TO READ IN 2021 * A TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK OF 2021 PICK * A FORTUNE BEST BOOK OF 2021 PICK For readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander, a "a graceful, captivating" (New York Times Book Review) portrait of grief and the search for meaning from a singular new talent as told through the prism of three generations of her Chinese American family. Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A vivacious and mischievous woman, Kat's mother made a morbid joke that would haunt her for years to come: when she died, she'd like to be stuffed and displayed in Kat's future apartment in order to always watch over her. After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. With a distinct voice that is wry and heartfelt, Kat weaves together a story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America. Seeing Ghosts asks what it means to reclaim and tell your family's story: Is writing an exorcism or is it its own form of preservation? The result is an extraordinary new contribution to the literature of the American family, and a provocative and transformative meditation on who we become facing loss.

Author : Gabriel Byrne
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1760983950
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking With Ghosts written by Gabriel Byrne and published by Picador. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In vivid, melodic prose, Gabriel revisits his childhood in Ireland, a world that has long since been renovated by time, and juxtaposes these memories with scenes from later years, in which he develops and occupies that strange identity of movie star. Impressionistic and sensual, Byrne's visions of home, of boyhood and adolescence, are gracefully interspersed with jump-cuts to pointedly unglamorous scenes from his life as he becomes an actor, as he becomes celebrated, as he becomes forever recognizable. Byrne is interested in exploring the pathos in what it means to be famous, in what it means to be praised when everything you’ve learned tells you that are not worthy of praise.

Author : Carder Stout
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0757323545
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Ghost Town written by Carder Stout and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Carder Stout's memoir about his fall from grace into addiction to crack; finding redemption in the most unlikely of places.

Author : Heinz Insu Fenkl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976808602
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of My Ghost Brother written by Heinz Insu Fenkl and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heather Scarbro Dobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733160100
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Future Ghost written by Heather Scarbro Dobson and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heather Scarbro Dobson probes her fears while seeking out the paranormal, sharing the true, often freaky and/or funny, sometimes sad tales of over a decade investigating ghosts and the people haunted by them. Through extraordinary occurrences in the everyday, she weaves a logical tale that death is nothing to be feared, that an afterlife exists, and though just like in life there's a bad egg that gets all the press, most ghosts just miss their homes, their people, and their lives, and want to stay as close as they can. Memoirs of a Future Ghost is a love letter to the legitimacy of science, the joys of life, and the truth within the mystery of the after-lifetime ahead for us all.

Author : CeeCee James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781496027245
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost No More written by CeeCee James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All CeeCee wanted was just a touch of approval and love from her mother. That's all. What she got was neglect, homelessness, dirty secrets, and abuse. Yet, there must be a way out of the mind-numbing self-condemnation that would surely lead to her ultimate destruction - there had to be. All she had to do was find the key that would open the door to feeling loved for the first time, learning to trust, and healing the broken places.

Author : Matt Tullis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998079332
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running with Ghosts written by Matt Tullis and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Tullis reminds us that surviving childhood cancer can be a challenge as formidable as fighting for your life - and more enduring.