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Bankruptcy statistics painfully show that family-owned businesses need all the help they can get. And -- in print, anyway -- they've been getting plenty. The newest text on the subject considers the plight of family-owned businesses -- government regulations, family-employer relationships, transition problems, among others -- at greater depth than most. It paints a picture that's not all sweetness and light, but shows ways to steer around the numerous pitfalls. In the end, the author's enthusiastic recitations of case histories, from an Oklahoma wheat farmer to Al Neiman and his brother-in-law Herbert Marcus, make you want to go out and do it despite the odds.