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The Bill Cook Story : Ready, Fire, Aim!
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ISBN: 0253018536 9780253018533 9780253352545 0253352541 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press,

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Bill Cook epitomizes the American success story. His business ventures in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, genetics, real estate, retail management, and travel services have made him a billionaire. Yet, Cook continues to lead a modest life, involving himself in a variety of philanthropic activities that have included historic preservation and even a marching band. This riveting story is the first-ever biography of the entrepreneur who, working from the spare bedroom of his Bloomington, Indiana, apartment in 1963 with a 1,500 investment, began to construct the wire guides, needles, and cathete


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The Bill Cook Story II : The Re-Visionary
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ISBN: 9780253017079 0253017076 9780253016980 0253016983 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Working from the spare bedroom of his Bloomington, Indiana, apartment in 1963 with a 1,500 investment, Bill Cook began to construct the wire guides, needles, and catheters that would become the foundation of the global multi-billion-dollar Cook Group. This story has been eloquently told in Bob Hammel's The Bill Cook Story: Ready, Fire, Aim. The sequel to this story explores Cook's final years, when the restoration work he championed, epitomized by the spectacular West Baden Hotel, became a driving force in his life and a source of great satisfaction and pleasure. Hammel takes us behind the sce

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