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New York Folks: Updated 2010 Edition

New York Folks: Updated 2010 Edition

Paperback

Historical Fiction

Publisher Price: $48.95

ISBN10: 1450252443
ISBN13: 9781450252447
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Aug 17 2010
Pages: 728
Weight: 3.54
Height: 1.45 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
NEW YORK FOLKS narrates the saga of Sure-Lite Brands Corporation, a producer of matches founded in 1893 by Hiram Ryder, a blacksmith's apprentice. Sure-Lite evolves, after a public offering in 1965, into a Fortune 200 NYSE listed corporation with CARSON'S a high growth retailer in the Home Center industry developing into Sure-Lite's principal business. A major power struggle erupts between the Ryder brothers for control of the company. Their struggle attracts predators, ambitious operating executives, slippery investment bankers, and corporate knaves, along with easy and hard ladies sporting high heels and sharp elbows. The narrative is brim with board of directors meeting conflicts, and self minded men and women who occasionally find themselves in foreign bedrooms. They are New York folks.

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