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Under now retired chairman Donald Petersen, Ford became the hot U.S. automaker of the 1980s. In A Better Idea (Houghton Mifflin; 270 pages; $24.95), Petersen says much of the secret lay in enlisting teams of workers to improve the quality of Ford cars. Teams created the Taurus, and are now developing an all new Mustang, due by the end of 1993. In flat but serviceable prose, Petersen outlines the steps Ford took to set up and use its teams. "The whole employee involvement process," he declares, "springs from asking all your workers the simple question, 'What do you think...
...DEVIL'S CANDY by Julie Salamon (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95). Subtitled The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood, this account by the film critic for the Wall Street Journal shows precisely how a turkey can be dressed. Given access to the project from the start, Salamon did not set out to chronicle a catastrophe; but that is what Tom Wolfe's novel became on screen, and this book retails every stumble along...
Julie Salamon, film critic of the Wall Street Journal, got to watch the accident in slo-mo close-up. In The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95), she tracks all the bollixed decisions that made the bosses at Warner Bros. wonder why they green-lighted Bonfire and vetoed Home Alone, and director Brian De Palma feel like an Iraqi army general. "He couldn't imagine," Salamon writes, "what it would be like to go through all this for a bad movie...
...every case of interethnic conflict one can cite a case of cooperation. Unlike school boards in San Francisco and Berkeley, the Oakland school board rejected Houghton Mifflin textbooks that it considered racist and sexist. Though the local press and the New York Times presented the textbook opponents as raving, politically correct Afrocentrics, one of the most eloquent speeches opposing the textbook adoption was made by a Chinese American...
...gift marks the 50th anniversary of Houghton Library, which houses the nation's oldest collection of original papers by American authors, and continues a longstanding relationship between the Boston publishing firm and the library...