A riveting, first-ever, sweeping biography of Thomas Watson, Jr.
His story, and the industry he created, is equal to, if not more important than that of Rockefeller and Standard Oil, Vanderbilt and the railroads, and Morgan in finance..
But despite his many demons, he laid the foundation for what eventually became the global information technology industry, which dominates today\'s world.
And he carried out a family-shattering battle over the future of IBM with his brother Dick, who expected to follow him as CEO.
He suffered from anxiety and depression so overwhelming that he spent days prostrate and locked in a bathroom at home while IBM faced crisis after crisis.
He pulled his life together as a courageous World War II pilot and took over IBM after his father\'s death.
As a young man, he was a failed student and playboy, an unlikely candidate for corporate titan.
Behind closed doors, Watson was a multifaceted, complicated man.
Time named him one of the One Hundred People of the Century.
Fortune magazine touted him as the Greatest Capitalist who Ever lived.
Its success made IBM the most valuable company in America. drove IBM to undertake the biggest gamble in business hiStory with a revolution no other company of the age could dare- the creation in the 1960s of the IBM System/360, the world\'s first fully integrated and compatible mainframe computer that laid the foundation for the information technology future. - more important to the hiStory and development of the modern world than Vanderbilt, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie - who risked everything, personally and professionally, to reinvent IBM and launch the computer age that Created the world we live in today Thomas Watson Jr.
A riveting, first-ever, sweeping biography of Thomas Watson, Jr
