James O'Shea
Author of Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin
James O'Shea is James O'Shea (2). For other authors named James O'Shea, see the disambiguation page.
Works by James O'Shea
Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin (1997) 164 copies, 1 review
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- Education
- University of Missouri-Columbia (BA|Philosophy|Creative Writing)
University of Missouri-Columbia (MA|Journalism)
Harvard University (Program for Senior Executives Security) - Occupations
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professor (Journalism) - Organizations
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Chicago Tribune
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An autopsy of the failure of Vernon Savings & Loan, a notorious Texas S&L that collapsed in a welter of bad debts, extravagance, and fraud. Some of the train-wreck descriptions are unintentionally (and perhaps intentionally) funny. There's also quite an emphasis on the connections to politicians, including soon-to-be-disgraced speaker Jim Wright; this was from the twilight era of the Democratic domination of Texas. Recommended for those that like financial trainwrecks (as I do). (My copy was show more an advance reading copy -- it had a wide variety of typos and errors, but that's common for essentially a near-final draft.) show less
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