Sons in the Shadow: Surviving the Family Business as an Sob—Son of the Boss

Sons in the Shadow explores the dynamics of family relationships in businesses both large and small about which relatively little has been written. The book examines father-son relationships and what it’s like to be the son of a self-made entrepreneur working in a family business enterprise. Roy H. Park was a Forbes 400 entrepreneur who grew up on a small North Carolina farm, put himself through college during the Great Depression and went through four careers to build a multimedia empire. His Park Communications, Inc. radio, TV and newspaper media and outdoor billboards in 23 states reached 25 percent of the American public before his death in 1993. The book describes the way he built his empire and dealt with those who worked for him - or got in his way. The thousands of sons or daughters of founders and bosses who work for their fathers or for a family business will be able to relate to and profit from the frank discussion of the bare-souled relationship in this book.