Nicholas Johnson
December, 1969
In his Native Boston, Roger P. Sonnabend had long been regarded by the business and social communities as a "good Jew"--he didn't make waves. Raised in the WASP tradition, Sonnabend attended the right schools (Phillips Exeter Academy, MIT, Harvard Business School), served in the Navy and followed his successful father (the late A. M. Sonnabend) into the hotel business. But in the past few years, the 44-year-old president of the Hotel Corporation of America has been rocking the establis...
