From Manila to Wall Street Named a Four Seasons Book Awards Finalist

Read the full editorial review at Four Seasons Book Awards

From Manila to Wall Street: An Immigrant’s Journey with America’s First Black Tycoon has been named a 2025 Spring Edition Finalist by the Four Seasons Book Awards, along with a five-star editorial review in their Voices of Excellence series.

From the review:

“Stories of corporate triumph are often constructed backward. Once success has been achieved, every risk appears visionary, every sacrifice necessary, and every setback merely a prelude to victory. Butch Meily resists that comforting arrangement in From Manila to Wall Street. His memoir enters the rarefied world of billion-dollar deals and high-stakes public relations, then looks beyond the polished image to consider what ambition demands from the people who pursue it.”

Four Seasons Book Awards, Editorial Review

At the center of the book stands Reginald Lewis, the first Black American to build a billion-dollar company. As his public relations strategist, adviser, and confidant, Butch records the making of a corporate legend while revealing the human reality behind it.