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MASTERS OF DISASTER
LEHANE, CHRISTOPHER
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Whether you're a politician in the spotlight, a multinational corporation, or just the guy in the corner cubicle who
has inadvertently pushed "reply all," a crisis is often a make-or-break moment and must be addressed carefully
and immediately, since virtually everything is at stake. More and more high-profile executives, companies, and
publicists are looking for the magic formula that will not only protect them from disaster but deliver them when
the worst strikes. Based on work they have done for scandal-dogged clients like Bill Clinton, Goldman Sachs,
and Lance Armstrong, Chris Lehane and Mark Fabiani show how to get the media on your side, meet your
detractors head-on, and emerge from a setback looking better than ever. Full of both lively anecdotes and hardknuckled
straight talk, this is a must-read for executives, politicians, and anyone else who needs to think fast
under the microscope.
BUSINESS 1ST PRINTING 35,000
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 256 PAGES
9780230341807
$31.00 HC
DECEMBER 2012
MASTER OF THE MOUNTAIN: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS SLAVES
WIENCEK, HENRY
So far historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was
an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery,
who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek’s
Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debtridden plantation thanks to
what he calls the “silent profits” gained from his slaves—and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and
thousands of others readily inhabited. We see Jefferson taking out a slave-equity line of credit with a Dutch bank
to finance the building of Monticello and deftly creating smoke screens when visitors are dismayed by his
apparent endorsement of a system they thought he’d vowed to overturn. It is not a pretty story. Slave boys are
whipped to make them work in the nail factory at Monticello that pays Jefferson’s grocery bills. Parents are
divided from children—in his ledgers they are recast as money—while he composes theories that obscure the
dynamics of what some of his friends call “a vile commerce.”
HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY 1ST PRINTING 60,000
FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX 352 PAGES
9780374299569
$26.50 HC
OCTOBER 2012
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