The White: Last days in the Antarctic journeys

The White: Last days in the Antarctic journeys

by Adrian Caesar (Author)

Synopsis

This story of American business which traces the rise of Malcolm Forbes against the collapse and corruption of American business in the 1970s and the go-go years of the 1980s. While many books, from Indecent Exposure to Barbarians at the Gate, have exposed modern business evils, they have treated them as isolated cases, where the men involved were cast as thieves. This is the first look at these evils in context, revealing the larger picture, raging at the decline in business standards, performance and ethics, and concluding with a call to action.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 04 May 2001

ISBN 10: 0333905725
ISBN 13: 9780333905722
Prizes: Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction 2000.

Media Reviews
'This imagined recreation of the two most unforgettable Antarctic disasters tells brutal stories, but manages to do so with great tenderness and grace. Adrian Caesar's literary high-wire act works wonderfully well, adding a vivid humanity to landscapes scattered only with stiffly-written memoirs and black, ice-cold memorials.' - Simon Winchester
Author Bio
Adrian Caesar was born near Manchester, and has lived in Australia since 1982. He is Associate Professor of English at the University College of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of several books of literary and cultural criticism and two books of poems.