Vol. 10, Issue 2 Overnight Success Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator By: Vance Trimble 341 pp. Crown Publishing 1993 Review by: Lydia Morris Brown

Overnight Success is a biography of Fred Smith and the trials he endured to gain the achievements and triumphs of Federal Express. The path Smith took to this point began with great difficulty-he exhausted millions of dollars from his father’s Greyhound Bus investments, he owed tens of millions, the board of directors fired him as CEO, and the FBI had accused him of forging bank loan papers. By mid 1974, he was facing a possible prison term, disgrace, and he began considering suicide. The turn around began a year later when the company finally made a $55,000 profit. Trimble provides an intimate look at the intensely private Frederick Wallace Smith and the American phenomenon, FedEx, which he created.

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