Fresh from her triumph at lucent，Carly Fiorina took command of Hewlett-packard in july 1999.Ever since,there has been worldwide fascination with her even-tual destiny.She was Venturing further than any woman previously had into traditional men's territory.This wasn't just the engineer's realm of bits and bytes;this was the guys'world of beer blasts,rolled-up shirt sleeves,and deer-hunting trips to the founders'ranch.
Could Fiorina use her charismatic salesmanship,earthy wit,and iron will to rescus a billion com-pany from a painful period of decline?If she failed,would her missteps destroy Hewlett-Packard,the revered computer and printer company that helped create Silicon Valley?
Perfect Enough is the definitive account of the most dangerous year in carly Fiorina's life,chronicling her daredvil bid to remake HP with a record-shattering billion acquistion of archrival Com-paq Computer.Not since the late 19805-when Wall Street operatives battled over the fate of RJR Nabisco-has t takeover drama so decisively moved beyond the business to become an enduring passage in American history.
Looming in the background for the entire story are the ghosts of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett,two American heroes who founded Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto garage during the Great Depression and built it into what was widely know as the best out=fit on earth,Although they died as billionaires in their eighties,before the HP-Compaq takeover drama began,their principles remain intact.Some of the book's most searingly emotional scenes come when Carly Fiorina and Bill Hewlett's oldest son,Walter,fight to the point of exhaustion about which of them is the rightful heir to the founders'legacy.
In Perfect Enough,Pulitzer Prize-winning author George Anders draws on unparalleled access to Hewlett-Packard insiders and board members-including dissident Walter Hewlett-to write about a takeover battle that rocked Wall Street,Stuned to day.It is a spellbinding chroncle of hope,ambition,betrayal,despair,and family pride.

PROLOGUE
1 THE BEST OUTFIT ON EARTH
2 THE MAN WHO SAID NO
3 GIVE ME A CHANCE!
4 RULES OF THE GARAGE
5 INSIDE THE BOARDROOM
6 THE BILLIONAIRES'LEGACY
7 THREE QUESTIONS
8 WALTER HEWLETT'S REBELLION
9 THE CRUSADE OF HER LIFE
10 INTO THE COUNTING ROOM
11 SEARCHING FOR VINDICATION
12 CAN CARLY MAKE IT?
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX

GEORGE ANDERS,is a senior editor at Fast Company magazine.He is the author of Mer-chants of Debt and Health Against Wealth.In 1997,he was part of a team of Wall Street Jour-nal reporters awarded the pulitzer Pize for national reporting.A graduate of stanford Uni-versity,he has written about business and technolygy since 1981.He lives in northern Cal-ifornia with his wife,Elizabeth Corcoran,and their two children.