Swimming Across: A Memoir - Hardcover

Grove, Andrew S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446528595 ISBN 13: 9780446528597

Publisher: Warner Books, 2001

Synopsis

A dramatic personal memoir by the chairman of Intel describes growing up in Europe on the eve of Nazi Germany's invasion of his native Hungary, how he and his family were forced into hiding from the Nazis in 1944, his flight from communism to America as a young man, and his rise to success in the business world. 75,000 first printing.

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Review:

Andrew Grove has earned fame and fortune as chairman and cofounder of Intel. But, we learn from this remarkable memoir, he began life under very different circumstances, narrowly escaping the Holocaust and the closing of the Iron Curtain.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1936, Grove--then called Andras Grof--grew up in a modestly prosperous, secular Jewish family. Through foresight and sheer good fortune, they avoided the fate of many of their fellow Jews, fleeing the Nazis into the countryside and living in a dark cellar in which "the sound of artillery was a continuous backdrop." Under the Communist regime that followed, Grove distinguished himself as a student of chemistry and was seemingly destined for a comfortable position in academia or industry--until revolution broke out in 1956 and he found himself in that cellar once again.

How Grove emerged, "swam across" to America, and made a new life under a new name makes a satisfying conclusion to this humane memoir, which gives readers valuable insight into the business guru and technologist. --Gregory McNamee

About the Author:

Andrew S. Grove participated in the founding of Intel and is its chairman today. He also teaches at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He was named TIME's "Man of the Year" in 1997, and his previous titles Only the Paranoid Survive and High Output Management are considered required reading in the business world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0446528595
• ISBN 13: 9780446528597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304