Download or read book Grounded written by Aaron Bernstein and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 raider's mentality to running a business, and how its failure marked a watershed in the 1980s "Age of Greed".