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Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power and Glory of America's Richest Media Empire and the Secretive Man Behind It
Newhouse All the Glitter Power and Glory of America's Richest Media Empire and the Secretive Man Behind It Author:Thomas Maier With a supporting cast of well-known literary names around him, Newhouse is the king of New Yorks cultural world todayas owner of Random House, the nations largest book publishing empire; publisher of such influential magazines as "The New Yorker," "Vanity Fair," "Vogue," and "Wired;" and by controlling dozens of other newspape... more »rs, magazines, and cable television franchises in the United States and around the world. Author Thomas Maier examines the rags-to-riches saga of the Newhouse family and how they built a privately-held empire estimated at $13 billion. He tells the personal story of how "Si" Newhouse emerged from the shadow of his demanding father to expand the family fortune further than anyone ever imagined, with his mercurial "off-with-their-heads" management style. This unauthorized investigative biography explores Newhouses reliance on his long-time friend Roy Cohn, a lawyer for the Mafia and a confidant to top politicians, and how the family managed to beat the IRS in a $1 billion tax battle. Like a message in a time bottle, "Newhouse" describes our celebrity-driven media age, a real-life allegory for the 1990s when communications giants like Newhouses Advance Publications, Inc., gobbled up everything in sight. This book raises strong warnings about a media monopoly in America, controlled by a handful of powerful men like Si Newhouse, and underlines the serious ways in which journalism has been transformed.« less