"When [small business owner] Paul Downs was approached by The New York Times to write for [its] 'You're the Boss' blog, he had been running his custom furniture business for twenty-four years strong--or mostly strong. Now, in his first book, Downs paints an honest portrait of a real business, with a real boss, a real set of employees, and the real challenges they face"--

"The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick-- hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller The World Is Curved-- argues that the experts are wrong. In recent decades, a Corporate Capitalism of top down mismanagement and backroom deal-making has smothered...