Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond.
WATSON, Thomas J. and Peter Petre.
Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond.
"As I associated with more and more different types, I realized that to make it, you had to get along with almost everybody": First Edition of Watson's Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond; Inscribed by Thomas Watson
New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
$1,500.00
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Item Number: 152154
First edition of the classic autobiography of “the greatest capitalist in history” (Fortune Magazine). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. on the front free endpaper, “For Smiley – For Ann – for a great and devoted lady who contributed in a major way to the growth of Brown. With affection Tom Watson Jr.” Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Accompanied by a laid in facsimile copy of a letter from Watson to Brown President Howard R. Swearer which mentions Ann in the third paragraph. Desirable signed.
In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their management style and shared dedication to excellence united to create a unique corporate culture that became the blueprint for the entire technology boom. "A frank and revealing picture of Big Blue -- and a vivid inside look at the family that dominated its years of spectacular growth" (The Boston Globe) and an "exciting history of the rise of the American computer industry" (The Washington Post).
