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Swimming Across: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by Andrew S. Grove
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Profoundly educational and enlightening, Andy Grove's book shares in this book his early life experiences that shaped his destiny. The challenge to start from below ground level and rise to the very top proves that anyone who does not have the resources to succeed can learn to leverage themselves to achieve goals that benefit everyone. |
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Author: Andrew S. Grove
Publisher: Warner Books
Pub. in: November, 2001
ISBN: 0446528595
Pages: 290
Measurements: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00994
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0446528597
Language: American English
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Consider this book your antidote for all the recent tales of CEO excess and duplicity. Andy Grove's story of his first 20 years in Hungary and New York City tells us how the events of World War II and the Hungarian Revolution shaped the integrity and inner drive of one man.
The story is compelling in its own right. But to read the story of Andras Grof and realize that this boy and his distant childhood turned into Andrew S. Grove... well, it's a journey of unfathomable proportions.
To his credit, Grove never oversells the story. He is quite forthright about his role in the Revolution - he was simply a bystander. Fellow Hungarians have read his story and lauded him for his accuracy and honesty.
Grove's writing style is sparse and direct. He recalls events with clarity and without extensive interpretation. He gives credit to a couple of editors who helped shape the story, most notably Norman Pearlstine of Time. But this is no ghost-written CEO treatise. These are obviously his words.
Some will read Swimming Across and conclude that it is a statement about the triumph of the American system. Grove notes near the end of the book "I've continued to be amazed by the fact that as I progressed through school and my career, no one has ever resented my success on account of my being an immigrant."
While there's an element of that, I think you'll see it more as a simple but brilliant testament to the Power of One Man.
(From quoting Andy Orrock, USA)
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Readers interested in such topics as Intel, Andy Grove, leadership, business memoirs, immigration success, American Dream and inspirational biographies should not miss this great piece of writing.
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Andrew S. Grove participated in the founding of Intel and is its chairman today. He also teaches at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He was named TIME's "Man of the Year" in 1997, and his previous titles Only the Paranoid Survive and High Output Management are considered required reading in the business world.
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Set in the cruel years of Hungary's Nazi occupation and subsequent Communist regime, SWIMMING ACROSS is the stunning childhood memoir of one of the leading thinkers of our time, the legendary Intel chairman.
The story of Andris Grof-later to become Andy Grove-begins in the 1930s, on the banks of the Danube. Here, in Budapest, young Andris lives a middle-class existence with his secular Jewish parents. But he and his family will be faced with a host of staggering obstacles. After Andris nearly loses his life to scarlet fever at the age of four, his family is forced to deal with the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Fleeing the Germans, Andris and his mother find refuge with a Christian family in the outskirts of Budapest and then hide in cellars from Russian bombs. After the nightmare of war ends, the family rebuilds its business and its life, only to face a new trial with a succession of repressive Communist governments.
In June 1956, the popular Hungarian uprising is put down at gunpoint. Soviet troops occupy Budapest and randomly round up young people. Two hundred thousand Hungarians follow a tortuous route to escape to the West. Among them is the author...
Combining a child's sense of wonder with an engineer's passion for detail, Grove re-creates a Europe that has since disappeared. From the Nazis' youthful victims innocently exulting in a "put the Jews in the ghetto" game... to a May Day march through Budapest under the blaring strains of prerecorded cheers... to the almost surreal scenes of young escapees securing the help of a hunchbacked peasant and his fantastically beautiful, colorfully costumed wife, he paints a vivid and suspenseful, personal and cultural portrait.
Within these pages, an authentic American hero reveals his origins in a very different place during a very different time. He explores the ways in which persecution and struggle, as well as kinship and courage, shaped his life. It is a story of survival-and triumph.
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Tom Brokaw (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-14 00:00>
Haunting and inspirational. It should be required reading in schools. |
Henry Kissinger (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-14 00:00>
A poignant memoir...a moving reminder of the meaning of America... |
George Soros (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-14 00:00>
This honest and riveting account gives a fascinating insight into the man who wrote Only the Paranoid Survive. |
Time (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-14 00:00>
...an astringently unsentimental memoir that may find its place...with such works as Angela's Ashes...and This Boy's Life... |
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