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Title: Tiresome Reading
Review: This entire book could have been written in one chapter or less. Unfortunately the author uses repetition to drive home a point which could have been easily deduced from reading the title of the book. Each example is portrayed as a deviously crafted plot by either management, the banks or both to deliberately enter into the 'safe haven' of the Bankruptcy Courts. No regard was given to the high probability that each of the companies would not have survived as a going concern. In fact the author offers up economically impractical solutions that each company could have implemented to avoid bankruptcy. On the plus side, the middle three chapters offer a good historic overview of the Texaco, John Manville and Continental filings.
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