The Maverick And His Machine
by Maney, Kevin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0471414638
- ISBN 13
- 9780471414636
- Seller
-
Cooperstown, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest business figures. Over the course of forty-two years, Thomas J. Watson took a failing business called The Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company and transformed it into IBM, the world's first and most famous high-tech company. The Maverick and His Machine is the first modern biography of this business titan. Maney secured exclusive access to hundreds of boxes of Watson's long-forgotten papers, and he has produced the only complete picture of Watson the man and Watson the legendary business leader. These uncovered documents reveal new information about how Watson bet the company in the 1920s on tabulating machines-the forerunners to computers-and how he daringly beat the Great Depression of the 1930s. The documents also lead t...
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Willis Monie Books - ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 328892
- Title
- The Maverick And His Machine
- Author
- Maney, Kevin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0471414638
- ISBN 13
- 9780471414636
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Place of Publication
- Hoboken, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- 0471414638, Business & Econmics, Ibm, Self - Help
Terms of Sale
Willis Monie Books - ABAA
All items are returnable within 14 days of receipt if not satisfied. NY residents will also be charged sales tax.
About the Seller
Willis Monie Books - ABAA
About Willis Monie Books - ABAA
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: