Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media

Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media
Michael Wolff

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.

Autumn of the Moguls

My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media

Michael Wolff

HARPER PERENNIAL

for Alison

Contents

Cover (#u5c02188e-eabc-5bab-ab57-622cef201556)

Title Page (#uee445cd1-a410-5009-8781-e0ff88c0135c)

Prologue (#u8542d2b8-c5c2-5f0d-9c64-6eed95d97adb)

Book ONE: Spring and Summer 2002 (#u2fc643d9-03b1-5fd9-840d-823b53e6fd0b)

1 THE COMEDY (#u788f0f1f-1db0-58dc-94b4-bd843bcd3de6)

2 MY TABLE (#u7b48bf9c-f053-5079-b04c-0b948de58f14)

3 LUNCH (#ub949e048-6a4d-56bc-b8f8-7e03e7645b56)

4 THE POWERS THAT BE (#ua09343d9-e042-5b11-9316-1fe8bd972178)

5 THE PARTNER (#u07521c12-b30b-5f9f-89c7-8ef93fe62a96)

6 MY THEORY (#ubac0b325-a30c-5b22-8631-a9df1c7cfb12)

7 THE BALLAD OF JEAN-MARIE (#u392d49ce-4ef7-5bde-8574-df250f9eb3c1)

8 IN THE SAME BOAT (#u377e20e2-7880-52ce-b44c-3c7f7b92d12b)

9 BOB PITTMAN—A DIGRESSION (#u4505607f-d749-5af6-bf64-0db6e44966d1)

10 NOT GETTING IT (#u063a4270-20a0-5ac2-a7ab-9bf4013a34bc)

11 BARRY BUFFETT (#litres_trial_promo)

12 AND THEN THERE WAS MURDOCH (#litres_trial_promo)

Book TWO: Autumn (#litres_trial_promo)

1 THE LIFE OF THE PARTY (#litres_trial_promo)

2 AILES AND TRUMAN (#litres_trial_promo)

3 MY DINNER WITH RUPERT (#litres_trial_promo)

4 THE REHEARSAL (#litres_trial_promo)

5 THE OTHER PANEL (#litres_trial_promo)

6 THE FIRST DAY (#litres_trial_promo)

7 THE MISSING (MEL AND SUMNER) (#litres_trial_promo)

8 CHARLIE AND MICHAEL (#litres_trial_promo)

9 MORE MICHAELS (#litres_trial_promo)

10 KEN AND STEVE (#litres_trial_promo)

11 MORE MICHAELS AND MORE DINNER (#litres_trial_promo)

12 KURT AND HARVEY (#litres_trial_promo)

13 TERRY, PETER, AND JEFF (#litres_trial_promo)

14 THE MAN UP THERE (#litres_trial_promo)

15 UNREAL PROPERTY (#litres_trial_promo)

16 THE BIG EVENING (#litres_trial_promo)

17 THE GUEST LIST (#litres_trial_promo)

18

Martha (#litres_trial_promo)

19 TINA (#litres_trial_promo)

20 AND STILL MORE COCKTAILS (#litres_trial_promo)

21 PINCH (#litres_trial_promo)

22 THE FINAL DINNER (#litres_trial_promo)

23 BARRY TRIUMPHANT—SORT OF (#litres_trial_promo)

24 WALTER (#litres_trial_promo)