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Title: Interesting for Penney types
Review: If you are a longtime current or former JCP manager, you will probably find this book interesting as one viewpoint on the long slide into mediocrity that Penney took in the 90's and early 00's. Since I knew a couple of the players in the book and had briefly met several others, it was personally engaging for me. However, as an objective work of literature, the book is sorely lacking. Mr. Penney's personal history has already been done, and better. What I wanted was a blow by blow of what befel Penney the last decade. Mr. Hare delivers many interesting antecdotes and gives us copious editorializing, but no coherent structure emerges. If this was a work of fiction, I'd be saying it has no plot to follow, though Bill Howell is clearly the bad guy in this book.
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