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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2023
General Electric and Jack Welch are dead. Now they belong to the ages, which means they are the property of historians. What are we to make of them?
Journalism has been called the first draft of history, and under review here are two books by journalists: Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann and The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles.
1 “Now he belongs to the ages” is the phrase that then Secretary of War Edwin Stanton is said to have uttered at Lincoln's death.