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• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education (October 1, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0071373071
• ISBN-13: 978-0071373074
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Joel Brinkley is a professor of journalism at Stanford University, a position he assumed in 2006 after a 23-year career with The New York Times. There, he served as a reporter, editor and Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent.
At Stanford, Brinkley writes an op-ed column on foreign policy that appears in about 50 newspapers and Websites in the United States and around the world each week, syndicated by Tribune Media Services.
Brinkley is a native of Washington D.C., and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He began his journalism career at the Associated Press and over the following years worked for the Richmond (Va.) News Leader and the Louisville Courier Journal before joining the Times in 1983.
At The New York Times, Brinkley served as Washington correspondent, White House correspondent and chief of the Times Bureau in Jerusalem, Israel. He spent more than 10 years in editing positions including Projects Editor in Washington, Political Editor in New York and Investigations Editor in Washington following the September 11 attacks. He served as political writer in Baghdad during the fall of 2003. He also covered technology issues including the Microsoft anti-trust trial and was serving as foreign-policy correspondent when he left the Times in June 2006.
Over the last 30 years Brinkley has reported from 46 states and more than 50 foreign countries. He has won more than a dozen national reporting and writing awards. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980 and in the following years was twice a finalist for an investigative reporting Pulitzer (for one, as a member of a team). He was a director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism from 2001 to 2006.
Mr. Brinkley is the author of five books: The Iran-Contra Affair (with Steve Engelberg) published by Times Books in 1988; The Circus Master's Mission, a novel, published by Random House in 1989; Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television , published by Harcourt Brace in 1998; U.S. vs. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case (with Steve Lohr) published by McGraw Hill in 2001; and Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land, published by Public Affairs Books in 2011. He has also contributed to several other books, including the chapter on George W. Bush in The American Presidency, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2004.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Old Stories in a New Package, September 27, 2000

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This review is from: U.S. V. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case (Hardcover)

This book is basically a repackaging of old newspaper stories. While it provides a good collection of what happened in the past, it provides no inside accounts or analysis of how the case came to be, or the inner workings of Microsoft. For a better inside account, see the book from Random House's Times Books, The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good story., November 30, 2000

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This review is from: U.S. V. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case (Hardcover)

Looking for an excellent story that seems to deliver both sides of the law suit brought against Microsoft, than this book is a must read for you. The authors take on a delicate subject and give you the best opportunity to make an informed decision.

Using actual court transcripts, documents and company emails, a story develops with a natural curiosity that kept this reader going along and following the story as if it was actually taking place in the present time frame. The story does not read like a mystery novel, a thriller or action story, instead the blend of legal-ease and objective opinion makes the book enjoyable. The overall reality of the storyline is what gives this book a real shot in the arm. Over 350 pages are not near enough to completely cover this story, as there is room for 350 more. The refreshing blend of investigative journalism and objective reporting are certainly the high points of the book. Overall this is one the best books I have read this year.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good story, valuable reference, October 4, 2000

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This review is from: U.S. V. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case (Hardcover)

If you want to understand the Microsoft case - the people behind it and the evolving context of antitrust law - this is the book. What it is, really, is a reference work - the New York Times coverage - surrounded by additional reporting and writing from the authors Joel Brinkley and Steve Lohr. It begins with a long lead-in chapter that traces the investigative origins of the case and the hardening position of the Justice Department and state investigators - and the early lost opportunities to settle the case by Microsoft. It has profiles of the key players in the case, it explains the shifts in antitrust doctrine over the years, and it has an intriguing piece on the tricky role played by Microsoft's competitors in encouraging the government to pursue the case. And Judge Jackson's comments, based on interviews during and after the trial, provide a fascinating and controversial glimpse of how his views of the company became increasingly negative as the case went on. Microsoft is basing its appeal partly on its claim that the judge's comments to the press, especially granting interviews to the New York Times before the case had left his courtroom, were improper. But what this book is not is a Microsoft book. What you learn about the company is based mainly on the testimony for the company and against it, and the evidence in the trial. What emerges is a picture of a company convinced that it is right, even virtuous, and whose win-every-point mentality that served it so well in the marketplace worked against it in the antitrust case. And oddly, after reading the book, I had the impression that while Microsoft is going to lose this case, it will probably not end up, after all the appeals, as the one-way shellacking it was in Judge Jackson's courtroom. The importance of that is that it will affect the eventual sanctions against Microsoft. In short, don't bet on a breakup of the company. This case isn't over yet.