Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines

Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines by Bernstein, Aaron. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781893122130.

The inside account of how Frank Lorenzo took over a sputtering Airlines and flew it into the ground. With access to the major players -- the guarded Lorenzo and his inner circle, former Eastern Airlines president Frank Borman, Peter Ueberroth, and union boss Charlie Bryan -- author Aaron Bernstein explains how Lorenzo brought a corporate raiders mentality to running a business, and how its failure marked a watershed in the 1980s "Age of Greed."