{"product_id":"9780553052701","title":"Talking Straight","description":" \u003ci\u003eIacocca: An Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e made  publishing history, breaking bestseller records  throughout the world. Now the nation's most  outspoken corporate giant and American success story  retums with a provocative new book, as forthright and  candid as ever. Talking Strait is for the millions  who read-and reread-Iacocca, as well as those who  will meet Lee Iacocca in these pages for the first  time. Here is Iacocca at his best-talking straight  and hard about the most pressing concerns of our  lives. . .\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTalking  Straight\u003c\/i\u003e offers the same breezy,  no-nonsense style that made Iacocca so appealing even to  non-business readers. . .This time he's offering  an even wider range of observations—on everything  from raising kids and growing older to what's  wrong with politics, trade, Wall Street, the Reagan  administration, and the American psyche. . .He also  offers eight commandments of management. . . .The  point of this book, he writes, is that fundamental  public issues must be addressed-and  soon.\"—\u003ci\u003eBusiness  Week\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He believes in the value of getting mad—at  deficits, trade policies, the news media—and he  believes in speaking out.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York  Times Book  Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Talking straight presents the Chrysler president's  message in tough-guy language laced with humor. .  .But it is, nonetheless, a serious book. Iacocca  is worried about this countries  future.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Pittsburgh  Press\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Iacocca's head-on confrontation of issues and  straight talk of the kind in this book would be a  refreshing change in Washington.\"—\u003ci\u003eSan  Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012588880112,"sku":"9780553052701","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780553052701","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}