| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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James Hoopes. False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing. 2003. Pp. xxxii, 320. $27.50.

This book is a critical history of the ideas that shaped modern management. James Hoopes's central proposition is that too many employers today are uncomfortable with exercising authority over their workers. He blames management theorists or "gurus" for this problem, arguing that for much of the twentieth century corporate leaders have been misled by these gurus who created "unrealistic hopes for democracy and moral legitimacy in the workplace" (p. 263). According to Hoopes, in a democratic society, managerial power may be morally illegitimate, but it is a necessary component to corporate success.

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