James W. Cortada, "IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon" (MIT Press, 2019)
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The Visible Hand by Al Chandler
In 19 78, i came across his book, the visible hand. I did not know that he had wante the pure surprise for that book. All i knew isthat the sky was up at harvard and had written what i thought was a really good business managfing book. One thing led to another, and atthe end of the 19 nineties, i decided, by this point, i had written a number of books on business history. And i approached them and said, you know, a big open question here is we don't understand how information is flowing through american history,. And i'd like to write a book on it, but i don't know enough to do
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