Drywall Contractor:
Start and Run a
Money-Making
Business by
Anthony Dougherty
(McGraw-Hill, 1994;
212/512-2000).
Softcover, 73/8x91/8,
262 pages. $18.95.
I sometimes judge the value of a book
by comparing the table of contents to
the number of pages. So when I first
picked up Drywall Contractor, I assumed
I would find little more than tip-of-the
iceberg treatment of its subject. While
that is true in some areas, the amount of
information compressed into 262 pages
is impressive. In addition to offering
very good reading, this book could save
budding drywall contractors many times
its nominal cost by helping them to
avoid what they would otherwise learn
from the expensive school of hard
knocks.
A questionnaire in the first chapter
forces the reader to take a