When Smart People Fail

Carole Hyatt. Penguin Books, $9.95 (24pp) ISBN 978-0-14-010727-2

Hyatt (The Women's Selling Game) and Gottlieb (Limbo) explore the effects of failure in success-oriented America on such people as George McGovern and Clare Boothe Luce. PW found that ""interviewing men and women in various fields, they glean interesting information from those who accepted defeat only temporarily.'' (April)

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