Sons in the Shadow: Surviving
in a Family Business as an SOB
(Son of the Boss)
by Roy H. Park Jr. ’ 61
A member of the board of advisers of
the UNC School of Journalism and Mass
Communication and 2005 recipient of the
Distinguished Alumnus Award explores the
dynamics of family relationships in businesses both large and small, about which relatively little has been written. Park describes
what it’s like to work for a self-made Forbes
400 entrepreneur father whose Park Communications media empire reached 25 percent of the American public before his death
in 1993. Any son or daughter of the founder
or boss working in a family business enterprise should be able to relate to and profit
from the frank discussion of the bare-souled
relationships in the book.
Stabbed in the Back:
Confronting Back Pain
in an Overtreated Society
by Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.
For more than three decades, Hadler
has studied lower back pain in otherwise
healthy people. In this book, he explains
the dilemma of back pain and its history
and treatment. Hadler argues that
regional back pain is overly medicalized
and that the issue is an individual predicament, a profound social problem, a
medical question and a vexing public
policy challenge. This book gives readers
the insights necessary to make informed
decisions when confronting low-back
pain. Hadler is a professor of medicine
and microbiology/ immunology at UNC
and an attending rheumatologist at UNC
Hospitals.
