The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of At&T [Hardcover]

Steve Coll (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Crafted with color and drama by an ex-Washington Post staffer, this solid account of the complex events leading to the 1982 AT&T breakup is hard to put down. Coll relates personality, politics, business, and law to bureaucratic maneuvering within and between the government and AT&T. He also assesses the consequences. Based on interviews and documents, the book is a series of short, episodic chapters. Given the effects of the breakup on the consumer, and Coll's stylish telling, the book promises to be broadly appealing. Recommended for academic and public libraries. John Cudd, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Atheneum; 1st edition (October 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689117574
• ISBN-13: 978-0689117572
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,443,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steve Coll is a writer for The New Yorker and author of the Pulitzer Prize- winning Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. He is president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. Previously he served, for more than twenty years, as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and ultimately as managing editor of The Washington Post. He is also the author of On the Grand Trunk Road, The Deal of the Century, and The Taking of Getty Oil. Coll received a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for outstanding international print reporting and the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best magazine reporting from abroad. Ghost Wars, published in 2004, received the Pulitzer for general nonfiction and the Arthur Ross award for the best book on international affairs.