Aesop's Fables in the Executive Suite

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables in the Executive Suite

Description

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing

en_US John S. Morgan

Creator

en_US Morgan, John Smith

Contributor

en_US Sowinski, Larry

Date

2016-01-25T16:14:37Z

en_US 1996-03

en_US 1974

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:14:37Z

Date Issued

en_US 1974

Abstract

en_US I learned of this book through the Milwaukee Public Library in 1983 and had been looking for it ever since. Now that I have it, I find it somewhat disappointing. It is a set of 42 (41, says the dust jacket, slightly blistered on the good copy and more blistered on the extra copy) alphabetical chapters based on traditional fables. Each chapter has a standard format: a limerick on the traditional fable, Aesop's moral, several pages presenting and analyzing contemporary cases, and a closing admonitory moral. As the author points out, the book could be called Fables for Promotion, since promotion seems to be the goal throughout. I had hoped that the limericks might be useful, but they are wordy and oblique. The most useful thing in the book might be the cover's cartoon of Aesop with an attache case, repeated in black-and-white on the title-page.

Identifier

en_US 442255160

en_US 2232 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77790

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Van Nostrand Reinhold

en_US New York

Subject

en_US HF5386.M762 1974

en_US Tangential book

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole