Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire

This renewed edition of Reginald F. Lewis's inspiring and enduring autobiography, "Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?" is a living, breathing testament to Reginald F. Lewis's passion for "the deal" and for life itself. An exclusive feature of this limited edition is a DVD which presents specially selected material from the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture and from the American Legacy television episode, hosted by Tim Reid, that focuses on Lewis's life and times. This reissue also presents a new introduction written by Christina Lewis Halpern, Lewis's daughter and a new foreword by Richard Parsons, former chairman of Citigroup and former chairman and CEO of Time Warner, Inc. Their commentary is followed by new commentary from key leaders in business and education who share Lewis's zest and enthusiasm, and appreciates in their own way, Lewis's glass ceiling-shattering question: Why should White guys have all the fun?

Reginald F. Lewis was chairman, chief executive officer, and principle shareholder of TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc., until his death from brain cancer in January 1993. Born into a Black working-class family in Baltimore, he had pushed himself onto Forbes magazine’s 400 list of wealthiest Americans at the time of his untimely death at age 50.

Blair Walker is a former financial reporter with USA Today. He has been writing professionally since 1980. He has been an editor with New York Newsday and the Washington Post, and has been a reporter with the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago bureau of The Associated Press. Blair has also freelanced for Emerge, AutoWeek, Fortune, Africans Americans on Wheels and BET Weekend magazines.

Richard Parsons is a business executive who served as Chairman of Citigroup from 2009 - 2012 and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner from 2002-2007. Hailing from a working-class background, Parsons regularly makes Fortune magazine's annual list of the most powerful people in business, and is considered to be one of the most respected African American executives in the country.