The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch - Softcover

Wolff, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767929527 ISBN 13: 9780767929523

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, 2010

Synopsis

From the author of Fire and Fury, this irresistible account offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale--and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future.

If Rupert Murdoch isn't making headlines, he's busy buying the media outlets that generate them. His News Corp. holdings--from the New York Post, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few--are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer in The Man Who Owns the News.

With unprecedented access to Rupert Murdoch himself, and his associates and family, Wolff chronicles the astonishing growth of Murdoch's $70 billion media kingdom. In intimate detail, he probes the Murdoch family dynasty, from the battles that have threatened to destroy it to the reconciliations that seem to only make it stronger. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews, he offers accounts of the Dow Jones takeover as well as plays for Yahoo! and Newsday as they've never been revealed before.

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Review:

Praise for Michael Wolff's BURN RATE

"Burn Rate has a terrific feel for the crazy deals, the characters, and the clashing bicoastal cultures of the Internet." --Deborah Stead, New York Times

"Burn Rate is the real deal: a smart, thoughtful, funny, knowing, clear-eyed, candid and altogether exhilarating insider's chronicle of the new media business--that is, the new media 'business.' If there's a more honest and entertaining book on the digital revolution, I haven't seen it." --Kurt Andersen, columnist at The New Yorker

"Wolff has given us the best account of both the lure and the frustration of the Internet." --Peter Martin, Financial Times

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--Amy Cortese, BusinessWeek

"Wolff, a nimble writer with a knack for spotting colorful details, moves the story along at movie-of-the-week pace." --Katie Hafner, New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

The definitive, exclusive-access account of the life and career of Rupert Murdoch - one of the most powerful, unusual, controversial, menacing, and captivating figures of our age.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0767929527
• ISBN 13: 9780767929523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480