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Raising the Bar
- The Life and Work of Gerald D. Hines
- Narrated by: Jonathan Smallwood
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 01-20-17
- Language: English
- Publisher: Fenwick Publishing
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $13.99
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Publisher's Summary
Gerald D. Hines stands at the top of the international real estate investment and development world. A Purdue graduate with a degree in engineering, Hines may have arrived in Houston in 1948 for a nine-to-five job at a heating and air conditioning company, but before long he was making the deals that would transform Houston's skyline. Later, with his revolutionary idea that great architecture was good business, he was reshaping the skylines of the world. Today, Hines is a respected global organization with a presence in 20 countries that has developed, redeveloped or acquired more than 1,100 properties.
Raising the Bar: The Life and Work of Gerald D. Hines tracks one man's incredible rise, from building small office/warehouses to manifesting Houston icons like The Galleria, One Shell Plaza, and Pennzoil Place to cultivating the national and then global expansion of his company. It paints a portrait of a man who himself is a study in contradictions: a child of the Depression and a citizen of the world; an engineer who still carries the slide rule that has guided his career yet commissions daring feats of art and architecture; a reserved and humble man in a field known for being brash and aggressive who takes on physical challenges with wild abandon. With enlivening anecdotes and revealing characterizations, Raising the Bar reveals the man behind the premier real estate company in the world like never before.
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- DPhipps
- 10-04-17
Great book, but long ending
Fantastic book and very interesting to look into Hines’ life. The end drags on too long about his personal travels and vacations, but otherwise a very interesting book.
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- M. Berkovich
- 09-27-17
Interesting Biography
I enjoyed learning about the life and work of J. D. Hines but I wish there was more detail about his actually development work. The details may be more textbook and case study material so I can't really complain much about that point.
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- Wttlhunter
- 06-23-18
Good Book Overall
If you are interested in the lives and courses of America's most successful people, you will like this book. The information is good but not great. More detail on some of the deals would have been nice. The book lacks the color of many books of its kind. There are details irrelevant to Mr. Hines success included and details of his most interesting deals missing. Other than that I did not think it was a bad book. It was worth reading.