Excerpt From Summary of Bryan Burrough & John Helyar's Barbarians at the Gate
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The 1970s and 1980s were a time of change in American business, as the old order was challenged and eventually overthrown by a new breed of executives who valued profit over tradition.
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The man who would come to represent the new age of business was born in 1931 in Winnipeg, Canada. He was always called Ross, not Fred. He had little interest in school, instead focusing on sports and sales.
