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Title: The real story
Review: Here is an exciting novel of corporate intrique. Did it happen? Probably. But not all at the same time (like Stephen Wright's restaurant that is "open 24 hours" -- but not all at the same time).I'd love to teach from this book sometime, as it beats even "Barbarians at the Gate" in its detailed discussion of backroom business. Of course, Reel and Route is fiction. Did Barbarians have beautiful women?Reading Bob Monks' background (banker, director, athlete, investment banker, activist, government executive), I am tempted to think that most of the story must have happened sometime, somewhere. Names changed, of course.The bright, beautiful and richly influential Molly Munro is head of an agency inside the U.S. Department of Labor, just as Monks was in an earlier period. From that position, they (Molly and also Monks) can do a little to save the U.S. economic/political system as we know it and to encourage employee ownership of U.S. corporations.
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