A Ghost's Memoirs: The Making of Alfred Sloans My Years with General Motors

Thirty days from delivering the manuscript about Alfred P. Sloan's life at General Motors, John McDonald, the ghostwriter for the memoir, was abruptly informed by Mr. Sloan, "we are not publishing." General Motors' legal staff was concerned that material within Sloan's memoir would become evidence in the antitrust litigation against the company and were fighting its publication. Five years later, in 1964, My Years with General Motors was released, immediately becoming a best seller and is now considered a business classic. Alfred Sloan led General Motors for thirty-three years, becoming a legend along the way in both the automobile industry and American business. In this fascinating book, John McDonald, a writer at Fortune Magazine, recounts how he and Sloan came to work and create together and how they fought to publish My Years with General Motors.