Gene Klein

I read this long, long ago, and remembered it as being a five-star book. Wanting to revisit it, I picked up a copy on Amazon.Com for the princely sum of one cent.

There are two possibilities here: either I did think it was a great book at the time, and my standards have since changed, or I thought it was pretty good, and my memory then advanced the rating upward over time. I honestly don't know which.

Either way, this gets a three-star rating from me today. It's a fairly engaging narrative from Gene Klein, who made a ton of money by selling used cars by the pound, raising prices on popcorn in theatres and paperback books in stores, conducting one of the first hostile takeovers in U.S. history, and so on, before making the mistake of assuming it would be nice to own a football team. It's a good read, just not that good.… (meer)