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From: mjackson@wc.eso.mc.xerox.com (Mark Jackson)
Subject: Re: History of XEROX
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 18:53:51 GMT
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tmasood@asic.sc.ti.com (Taha Masood) writes:
> In article 27471@dejanews.com, TED@world.gun.de writes:
> >I am seeking on any kind of information dealing with the _history_ of Xerox.
> 
> There was this book written by the ex-CEO of Xerox. I forgot his
> name but I remember that he was also the assistant secretary of
> education under Bush. The name of the book is I believe
> "Xerox, the american sumarai". This book should give
> you a lot of information about the history of Xerox.

You're confounding books.  Here's what's I know to be available:

/My Years With Xerox:  The Billions Nobody Wanted/, John H. Dessauer
(Doubleday, 1971; Manor Books paperback, 1975)

/Xerox:  American Samurai/, Gary Jacobson and John Hillkirk (Macmillan,
1986; Collier paperback, 1987)

/Fumbling the Future/, Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander
(William Morrow, 1988)

/Prophets In the Dark/, David T. Kearns and David A. Nadler (Harper
Business, 1992)

Dessauer was with Xerox for 35 years; Kearns is a former CEO.

[I don't usually bother with disclaimers but in this case:

I speak for myself, not for Xerox.

-- 
Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson
	You can fool all the people all the time
	if the advertising budget is big enough.
				- Ed Rollins


