PETER ROBISON is an investigative journalist for Bloomberg and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award, the Malcolm Forbes Award, and four "Best in Business" awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, with an honors degree in history from Stanford University, he lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife and two sons.
*A NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER*
*A WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER*
*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY NPR, NEWSWEEK, AND THE
NEW YORK POST*
*A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF 2021*
*A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE*
"A compelling, deeply reported account, written in crisp,
controlled anger. It is an indictment not just of one of America's
most celebrated companies, but of an entire era: of politicians
believing business knew best, of regulators bending to their will,
and of shareholder returns elevated above any consideration for the
rest of society, including consumers' safety-and lives."
-Financial Times
"Powerful and unsettling... A page-turner...One can only hope that
the next generation of corporate executives will read Robison's
book."
-Washington Post
"A disturbing account that will return much-deserved scrutiny both
to Boeing and to its regulator."
-Wall Street Journal
"The long train of events that led to the tragedies-and the
subsequent reputational and financial trashing of one of America's
biggest companies-is expertly dissected in Flying Blind....
A 'bottom-line mindset' prevailed. In rich detail, Mr Robison
chronicles the shortcomings of that approach at a firm where safety
should be paramount."
-The Economist
"Vividly written and meticulously researched, Flying Blind
is a story everyone-every consumer, every citizen, every worker in
every industry-needs to read. Peter Robison brilliantly places
Boeing's deadly downfall within the larger tragedy of an American
business culture that gradually has smashed every altar but the one
where the bottom line is worshipped."
-Diana B. Henriques, New York Times bestselling author of
The Wizard of Lies and A First-Class
Catastrophe
"Flying Blind is superb reporting in service of a riveting
story. Robison has crafted this tour de force masterfully, showing
how modern capitalism's abandonment of quality in favor of quick
bucks literally knocked airplanes out of the sky. As you turn each
page in growing disbelief and anger, I guarantee it will keep you
reading late into the night."
-Kurt Eichenwald, New York Times bestselling author of
Conspiracy of Fools and The Informant
"Peter Robison's compelling and richly reported Flying Blind
is about so much more than the sad decline of Boeing and the tragic
mistakes that led to the 737 Max disaster. It's also the urgent
story of how the almighty profit motive supplanted a culture of
engineering excellence in boardrooms across America and the
avoidable calamity that has impacted all of us as a result."
-Brad Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Amazon
Unbound and The Everything Store
"Peter Robison's Flying Blind is the astoundingly well
reported and beautifully told story of the downfall of what was
once a great American company. Robison, who got to know Boeing in
the late 1990s as a beat reporter, watched as the proud engineering
culture was decimated by those who cared first and foremost about
making money. The details are unique, but what makes this book a
must-read is that the story's theme has become all too common."
-Bethany McLean, New York Times bestselling co-author of
The Smartest Guys in the Room
"Flying Blind is a gripping narrative and required reading
for anyone who wants to understand how one of America's mightiest
corporations veered so badly off course."
-Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker staff writer and New York
Times bestselling author of Black Edge
"A startling investigation of the corporate blunders behind the
tragedies that claimed the lives of 346 passengers."
-Sunday Times (UK)
"Chilling...A vital and enraging portrait of an avoidable
tragedy."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A remarkable look at corporate culture's impact on consumer
safety, Flying Blind is a captivating and unsettling
portrait of Boeing and American business."
-Booklist (starred review)
"[A] revealing expose...A damning, highly readable account of a
once-great company brought to its knees by bad leadership."
-Kirkus
"A gripping tale...Robison's fast-paced account serves as an
excellent case study of business mismanagement...and will have
broad appeal as a story about the rise and fall of a historic
business."
-Library Journal (starred review)
"[Robison] avoids simple explanations or scapegoats. His story
focuses on two major shifts: one is the evolution of Boeing over
the course of the last half-century.... the second is a political
and business climate that became increasingly hostile to assertive
federal regulation. Robison convincingly depicts the story of the
737 MAX as the culmination of these trends, but he ultimately
resists the sort of pat causal explanations that many-including the
government itself-have used to try to describe what happened."
-The New Republic
"A convincing and unsettling business narrative that reconstructs
the decisions leading up to two tragic Boeing 737 plane
crashes."
-Shelf Awareness (starred review)
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