Taking America: How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding, and Scandal

by Jeffrey Madrick

Chronicles the radical changes in American business practices since the first hostile takeover in 1974, when economic forces made it easier for a corporation to grow through acquisition rather than internal start up

310 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1987

About the author

JEFF MADRICK is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He is director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative at the Century Foundation, where he is a Senior Fellow; editor of Challenge Magazine; and visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union.

He has written for many other publications over the years, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Institutional Investor, The Nation, American Prospect, The Boston Globe, Newsday, and the business, op-ed, and the Sunday magazine sections of The New York Times.