Fallen Giant

Ron Shelp has many years of experience in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. He served as a domestic and international troubleshooter and also supervised world-wide government relations, corporate communications, and advertising/sales promotion at AIG. He also served on a number of AIG boards. Following his departure from AIG, Shelp worked at Celanese Corporation as a member of the management committee and for Burson-Marsteller. He later became president and CEO of an Internet company. Shelp's nonprofit experience includes serving as president and CEO of New York City Partnership, which was founded by David Rockefeller. Al Ehrbar is an experienced business journalist, who was formerly an editor and writer at Fortune and chief economics writer for the Wall Street Journal.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. PROLOGUE. Chapter I: How Hank Greenberg Did It. Chapter II: Shanghai Starr. Chapter III: Secrets to Building the China Empire. Chapter IV: Starr Joins "Wild Bill" Donovan to Fight the Japanese. Chapter V: Turning the War to Advantage. Chapter VI: Business Is Pleasure and Pleasure Is Business. Chapter VII: Preparing to Be a Public Company. Chapter VIII: A Nobody Beats the Ivy Leaguers. Chapter IX: Life with Hank Greenberg. Chapter X: Morefar. Chapter XI: The Mystery of What Happened at AIG. Chapter XII: Greenberg's Fall from Grace. Chapter XIII: The Great Survivor Vows to Bounce Back. THE CAST OF CHARACTERS. TIMELINE. ENDNOTES.