Review
"I'd like to be Charlemagne. I'd like to ride in on a white horse and cure all the evils in the world." - Ted Turner. Sharp-eyed business sleuth and humanitarian, Ted Turner has worked ferverishly all his life but not just for his own gain. While becoming a force in television, helping to create Turner Broadcasting, he swept aside the iron curtain at the height of the Cold War and established the Goodwill Games co- hosted with the Kremlin. Althea Carlson set out to write a biography but soon found out no one can best reveal Ted Turner than Ted Turner himself... A true believer in the David and Goliath legend, Ted Turner reveals himself to be a revolutionary bringing the world together with the aid of telecommunications. -- Koen Review
A glowing tribute to media mogul, Ted Turner, can be found in RIDING A WHITE HORSE by Althea Carlson who wrote this biography while wearing rose-colored glasses. Still, it works. -- Bookviews -- Alan Caruba
Ted Turner, world famous yachtsman, newsman, television tycoon and multi-billionaire, has become the foremost private citizen promoting international understanding, goodwill and peace. RIDING A WHITE HORSE by Althea Carlson, describes "Ted Turner's Goodwill Games and Other Crusades." The games were recently held in New York. -- Book Browsing with Phyllis Straughan
There is plenty of fodder for Ted watchers here. Of particular interest are Mr. Turner's comments about his father, who made young Ted finish the Britannica Great Books during the summer ("I was instructed with wire coat hangers when I didn't get them read") and who wrote a multipage letter berating his son for majoring in classics at Brown instead of something contemporary. Ted switched to economics... Mr. Turner, whose relations with the press have been testy at times, did supply the book's cover photo. -- Book Marks, Wilmington Star News
RIDING A WHITE HORSE is Ted Turner's candid account in his own words of how the agreement with Turner Broadcasting and the Kremlin came about to broadcast the 1986 Moscow Goodwill Games. With the fear of nuclear war between the Superpowers a very real concern, 3500 athletes from 79 countries agreed to participate. These athletes from around the world offered their personal best under a banner proclaiming "From Friendship in Sport to Peace on Earth." RIDING A WHITE HORSE is filled with the color, drama, action, and ultimately the success of a novel undertaking of international proportions. A full biographical narrative in Turner's own words, supplemented with some supporting eyewitness accounts, this is the closest thing to an auto-biography of Ted Turner as currently exists. RIDING A WHITE HORSE will be of great interest to admirers of Ted Turner's multifaceted entrepreneurial career, international sports, and Sino/American studies. -- Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review
I read RIDING A WHITE HORSE twice. It's a book that you can refer back to for inspiration on how to manage your life and reading it will motivate you. Like the SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS, this book reflects on how you are managing your life and if your actions are steering you in the direction of the kind of person you want to be. You can get so caught up in the demands of daily life that you need to take time to sit back and think about it. I now keep RIDING A WHITE HORSE by my bedside. -- Reader, Patty Aselton, Young Professional
From the Back Cover
"It is far better for us to meet on the playing fields than it is for us to meet on the battlefields," said Mr. Yushkiavitshus at the signing of the agreement between Turner Broadcasting and the Kremlin. 3500 athletes from 79 countries agreed. They offered their personal best under a banner proclaiming: "From Friendship In Sport To Peace On Earth.
