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The savages grew up — and got funnier. The follow-up to the beloved Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons (1957) finds Shirley Jackson — already famous for “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House — chronicling the further adventures of her four children, now older, louder, and more gloriously unruly.
From disastrous dinner parties to the children’s escalating schemes, Jackson applies her master storyteller’s eye to the comedy of family life: the Vermont house overrun with pets, books, and chaos; the husband (literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman) presiding over it all; the neighbors watching in bewilderment. Every page crackles with her dry wit and perfect comic timing.
Read it alongside Life Among the Savages for the full portrait — the horror legend at her most human and most hilarious. A warm, wonderful classic of American humor writing, from a writer who could do everything.
One of the great classics of business literature, My Years with General Motors is Alfred P. Sloan Jr.’s firsthand account of how he transformed a loose collection of car companies into the largest corporation in the world.
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nSloan led General Motors as its chief executive from 1923 to 1946, and this 1963 memoir distills everything he learned: how to build a decentralized organization with coordinated control, how to read a market, and how to make decisions with discipline and clarity. His famous policy — “a car for every purse and purpose” — reshaped the automobile industry and set the template for modern corporate management.
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nMore than a memoir, the book is a masterclass in leadership and organizational design, written in plain, precise prose by a man who believed in facts, systems, and accountability. It has been read and admired by generations of executives as one of the most influential business books ever written.
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nWhether you run a company or simply want to understand how great organizations are built, My Years with General Motors remains as sharp and relevant as the day it was published.
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