Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire (SIGNED)

Auletta, Ken

ISBN 10: 0393051684 / ISBN 13: 9780393051681

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2004

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Fine in wrappers. An ARC copy in fine condition with full number line. Signed by author on title page. The covers are clean and bright and the edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark, NOT ex-lib. Seller Inventory # 007740

Bibliographic Details

Title: Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire (...

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine in wrappers

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: ARC

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Synopsis:

America's top media journalist on the rise and fall of the industry's most colorful titan. Ted Turner, the "mouth from the South," revolutionized television. Grasping cable's potential in its infancy, Turner parlayed a tiny UHF station in Atlanta into a national cable superstation; invented the world's first 24-hour cable news channel, CNN; and transformed the MGM film library into lucrative cable networks. Although Turner sold his company to Time Warner and was eventually ousted, his influence is still pervasive in the business world through his philanthropy. Ken Auletta, whose New Yorker profile of Turner won a National Magazine Award for Best Profile in 2001, has written the first book-length retrospective on the volatile Turner and his roller-coaster career, and received the active cooperation of Turner himself, including fifteen hours of taped interviews. Media Man is a captivating view of a daring entrepreneur, a pioneering company, and the industry they helped create. 6 photographs. About the series: W. W. Norton and Atlas Books announce the launch of a dynamic new series: ENTERPRISE pairs distinguished writers with stories of the economic forces that have shaped the modern worldthe institutions, the entrepreneurs, the ideas. Enterprise introduces a new genrethe business book as literature.

About the Author:

Ken Auletta writes the "Annals of Communications" for The New Yorker and is the author of nine previous books, including Greed and Glory on Wall Street, Three Blind Mice, The Highwaymen, World War 3.0, and Backstory. He lives in New York City.