Fallen Giant

Ronald K. Shelp has long experience in both the corporate and non-profit sectors. He served as a domestic and international troubleshooter and also supervised worldwide government relations, corporate communications and advertising/sales at AIG. He served on various AIG boards. Following his departure from AIG, Shelp worked at Celanese Corporation as a member of the management committee and later worked for Burston-Marstellar and the co-founded B2B Street.com, an internet company. In the non-profit arena, he serves as President and CEO of the New York City partnership, founded by David Rockefeller. Shelp has also served as advisor to Presidential candidates and other politicians. He has contributed to numerous books and has also written for the New York Times, Foreign Policy, LA Times. Al Ehrbar is an experienced business journalist who formerly worked at Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of two books, EVA: The Real Key to Creating Wealth and The Verbatim Story: The First Twenty Five Years.

Acknowledgments. Prologue. Introduction. Chapter 1 How Hank Greenberg Did It. Chapter 2 Shanghai Starr. Chapter 3 Secrets to Building the Chinese Empire. Chapter 4 Starr and "Wild Bill" Donovan Use Insurance to Fight the Japanese. Chapter 5 Turning the War to Advantage. Chapter 6 Business Is Pleasure and Pleasure Is Business. Chapter 7 Preparing to Be a Public Company. Chapter 8 A Nobody Beats the Ivy Leaguers. Chapter 9 Life with Hank Greenberg. Chapter 10 Morefar. Chapter 11 The Mystery of What Happened at AIG. Chapter 12 Greenberg's Fall from Grace. Chapter 13 The Great Survivor Vows to Bounce Back. Chapter 14 Fighting for Honor and Managing from Afar. Chapter 15 The Battle of the Lawyers. Chapter 16 A Losing Struggle to Save a Lifetime ' s Work. The Cast of Characters. Timeline. References. Books by Ron Shelp. About the Author. Index.