"Why should white guys have all the fun?" : how Reginald Lewis created a billion-dollar business empire

Title
  1. "Why should white guys have all the fun?" : how Reginald Lewis created a billion-dollar business empire / Reginald F. Lewis and Blair S. Walker.
Published by
  1. Baltimore, MD : Black Classic Press, 2005.
Author
  1. Lewis, Reginald F., 1942-1993.

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Additional authors
  1. Walker, Blair S.
Description
  1. xvii, 318 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  1. Lewis, Reginald F., 1942-1993
  2. African American businesspeople > Biography
  3. Millionaires > United States > Biography
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. A kid from East Baltimore -- Ch. 2. Lewis's "demon work ethic" : the high school years -- Ch. 3. "I'm going to be a millionaire" : Lewis at Virginia State -- Ch. 4. No application needed : breaking down the doors of Harvard Law -- Ch. 5. Building his own law practice : the years of struggle -- Ch. 6. "Masterful" man : winning Loida Nicolas -- Ch. 7. "I was not ready" -- Ch. 8. Drexel, the bear, and the $18 million race : closing the McCall pattern deal -- Ch. 9. Piloting McCall for a 90-to-1 gain -- Ch. 10. The biggest deal of all : the billion-dollar LBO of Beatrice -- Ch. 11. International headaches and domestic roadblocks -- Ch. 12. Bravura and brinksmanship : closing the Beatrice acquisition -- Ch. 13. Taming a business behemoth -- Ch. 14. A door to a new universe -- Ch. 15. Connoisseur, philanthropist, citizen of the world -- Ch. 16. "I am not afraid of death"
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Includes index.