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Title: Anders vs. Burrows
Review: As someone who followed the HP acquisition of Compaq in the press, it was interesting to read two very different accounts of it in the books by Anders and Burrows. Both were well-written. The difference is that Anders was relatively objective and balanced; Burrows wrote an anti-Fiorina manifesto. There are no bad guys in Anders' book: he portrays the pro- and anti-merger forces in fair terms, warts and all. Burrows appears to be smarting over not having as full access to the HP side as he did to the Hewlett side, and it permeates his book. Reading about the same event or discussion in each, one comes away with a much more in-depth, balanced view of the item from Anders. No surprise that Anders is the one who has won a Pulitzer Prize for prior work.
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