FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SHOCKING NEW BOOK SHAKING US POLITICS: FIRE AND FURY, INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITEHOUSEA riveting, barnstorming, thrilling ride through the loud, lively and all-embracing world of the modern media conglomerates – its key deals, dealmakers, divas and delusions.The global media industry has never been more powerful. And there is no more astute, forthright and entertaining chronicler of this roller-coaster world than award-winning writer Michael Wolff. In ‘Autumn of the Moguls’, a funny, frank, and incendiary account that looks hard at the great characters of this media age – from homes and gardens empress Martha Stewart to Disney czar Michael Eisner – he has written the guide we all need to the media, a world that is often more entertaining than what it produces.
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Michael Wolff. Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media
Contents
PROLOGUE
1. THE COMEDY
2. MY TABLE
3. LUNCH
4. THE POWERS THAT BE
5. THE PARTNER
6. MY THEORY
7. THE BALLAD OF JEAN – MARIE
8. IN THE SAME BOAT
9. BOB PITTMAN— A DIGRESSION
10. NOT GETTING IT
11. BARRY BUFFETT
12. AND THEN THERE WAS MURDOCH
1. THE LIFE OF THE PARTY
2. AILES AND TRUMAN
3. MY DINNER WITH RUPERT
4. THE REHEARSAL
5. THE OTHER PANEL
6. THE FIRST DAY
7. THE MISSING (MEL AND SUMNER)
8. CHARLIE AND MICHAEL
9. MORE MICHAELS
10. KEN AND STEVE
11. MORE MICHAELS AND MORE DINNER
12. KURT AND HARVEY
13. TERRY, PETER. AND JEFF
14. THE MAN UP THERE
15. UNRAL PROPERTY
16. THE BIG EVENING
17. THE GUEST LIST
18. MARTHA
19. TINA
20. AND STILL MORE COCKTAILS
21. PINCH
22. THE FINAL DINNER
23. BARRY TRIUMPHANT– SORT OF
24. WALTER
EPILOGUE: WINTER AND SPRING
Index
Notes and Acknowledgments
About the Author
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Bloodless Lunch in Media-Land
P. S. Ideas, interviews & features…
About the author. Q & A with Michael Wolff
LIFE AT A GLANCE
Top Ten Favourite Books
About the Book. Critical Eye
Play Up to the Stereotype
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Copyright
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Autumn of the Moguls
My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media
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And the whole game was the rise and fall of these sui generis, savantlike beings—around them, you might argue, the business itself became something of an afterthought.
And so, in the nineties, there was the Time and Warner merger. Then there was the deal under which—to hold down the massive debt incurred from the Time and Warner deal—a piece of Time Warner’s entertainment and cable companies was sold to John Malone, another of the media business’ great lousy-deal makers. Then CNN was acquired (ruining that company). And along the way there were hundreds of other transactions, bigger and smaller. Then, on January 10, 2000, Time Warner announced it was merging with AOL. (Days before the announcement, I was flipping channels and paused for a moment on a CNN show that had on its panel Jerry Levin, Isaacson, media and culture commentator Kurt Andersen—also a former Timer—and the New Yorker’s mogul-fanzine writer Ken Auletta, talking about the future of the media. Suddenly, in the discussion, Levin, who probably knew he was soon to announce the largest merger in history, started to talk about governments‘ fading and some new sort of corporate city-states’ rising and how the world would be mediated in some vaguely sci-fi-ish New Agey Rollerball digital way.)
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