Mr. Rosenthal quickly mapped out a series of articles centered around a tale of community callousness, and then followed in June with his quick-turnaround book, published by McGraw-Hill.
But Michael Payne, a former Olympic official and the author of "Olympic Turnaround", a book about the games' commercial revival, downplays such concerns.
As Romney concedes in "Turnaround," his book about taking charge of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, in Salt Lake City, "I never actually ran one of our investments; that was left to management".
Franklin Zimring, a criminologist at Berkeley Law, called the turnaround a "Guinness Book of World Record crime drop".
Mr. Romney, in his book "Turnaround," was effusive in his praise.
"Romneys are, by nature, an adventurous breed," Mitt Romney proclaimed with no apparent irony in his 2004 book "Turnaround".
Reviewers have criticized Mr. Brill for making what seems like a bizarre turnaround in the book's final chapter.
But the "historic turnaround," as the book's subtitle correctly terms it, would not have happened without Mr. Gerstner.
You write in your book, "Turnaround," that you were drawn to economics because you wanted to "help people in developing countries like my native Jamaica".
Mr. Bratton, 54, openly campaigned for the Los Angeles job, distributing press clippings and copies of his 1998 book "Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic," to city officials and reporters.
When he did, he often offered a truncated version: his book "Turnaround," Mr. Kranish and Mr. Helman write, recounted the story of his great-grandfather Miles's dramatic journey to Mexico in the 1880s, "but left out most of the details, with no mention of Miles's multiple wives or his perilous assignment to create a sanctuary for polygamy across the border".
