Deal Junkie: A Half-Century of Deals that Brought the Biggest U.S. Retail and Apparel Companies to Answer the Moment and Prepare for the Future

Bringing public and private companies to the bargaining table to merge, sell or divest themselves is an intense high-wire act—and Gilbert Harrison’s Deal Junkie is an in-depth account of how a great practitioner of the art form has pulled off these kinds of deals over the course of five-plus decades in the business.

If it were your job to bring a company to the bargaining table so it could merge, sell or divest, you had better have the stamina and guts as well as an intricate knowledge of ho...