cover image Silent War: Inside the Global Business Battles Shaping America's Future

Silent War: Inside the Global Business Battles Shaping America's Future

Ira Magaziner. Vintage Books USA, $15 (415pp) ISBN 978-0-679-72827-6

American business, focusing on quick profit rather than long-term progress, is falling behind in research and development, the heart of new product discovery, assert the authors in what PW described as ``a study that U.S. business leaders can ignore only at their peril.'' (May)