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Threshold Resistance: The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer Hardcover - 2007

by A. Alfred Taubman

This is the story of America's most innovative developer and luxury retailing pioneer--who made fortunes in businesses as varied as architecture, land speculation, mall development, and luxury housing. Here, Taubman reveals the theme that runs through each of these endeavors.


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In this candid memoir, A. Alfred Taubman explains how a dyslexic Jewish kid from Detroit grew up to be a billionaire retailing pioneer, an intimate of European aristocrats and Palm Beach socialites, a respected philanthropist and, at age 78, a federal prisoner.

With a unique blend of humor and genius, Taubman shows how selling fine art and antiques really isn't that different from marketing root beer or football, and offers penetrating insights into that quintessential palace of commerce, the luxury shopping mall. Alfred Taubman may not have invented the modern shopping center but, in the words of The New Yorker, "he perfected it."

Taubman's life has been a storybook success, with its share of unique challenges. A pioneer builder and innovative real estate developer, he was also a brilliant land speculator, operator of a quick-serve restaurant chain, and owner of a major department store company. But what seemed like the pinnacle of his career, buying and reinventing the venerable art auction house Sotheby's, would lead to his conviction in an international price fixing scandal.

Despite the twists and turns, Taubman's life and business philosophy can be summed up in one evocative phrase: Threshold Resistance. Understanding and defeating that force--breaking down the barriers between art and commerce, between shoppers and merchandise, between high culture and popular taste--has been his life's work.

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  • Title Threshold Resistance: The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer
  • Author A. Alfred Taubman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st ed
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Business, New York
  • Date April 10, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780061235375 / 0061235377
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Entrepreneurship - United States, Architects - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006049739
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Publishers Weekly, 02/26/2007, Page 76
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 95
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