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Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner Paperback – April 1, 1995

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In a career that began in Brooklyn and spanned Wall Street, Hollywood, and the Mafia, Ross built his father-in-law's funeral business and a parking lot company into Time Warner, the largest media and entertainment company in the world. Hard-hitting and compulsive reading, this book takes you into the heart of what made this arrogant yet irresistible man tick.

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395 pages
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English
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Penguin Books
Publication date

April 1, 1995
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5.12 x 1 x 7.92 inches
ISBN-10

0140244549
ISBN-13

978-0140244540
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Bruck chronicles the fast-paced career of Time Warner's Steve Ross, who transformed his father-in-law's funeral business into the world's largest media company.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books; Reprint edition (April 1, 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 395 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140244549
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140244540
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 1 x 7.92 inches

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JB Vick

read if you wanna learn the history of Time Warner

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2014

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It's an ok read. Lots of details about stuff that didn't really matter from a long time ago before the Internet. Interesting to note that this guy probably set in motion the process of CEO's looting the corporate treasury for their own personal gain with total disregard for the shareholders, a practice that became de figure with CEO's in the 90's. Some interesting tidbits in here about how they planned to buy Turner away back in the early 90's. Wish there was more about Ross and what made him do things he did. Guy spent money like a drunken sailor. Read it and you will know how David Geffen and Speilberg became so rich.

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Ravi Madhavan

How May I Serve You?

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2009

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Interesting book about a very interesting man. How may I serve you was Steve Ross's greeting to the family of the departed when he was a funeral director. He used that keen awareness and ability for empathy expand his funeral company into NYC parking garages, rental cars, music business, movies, cable and finally into the largest media company in the world - Time Warner. The book was a biography and well written by Connie Bruck. My 3 stars are mainly because I was more interested in the business side rather than Ross's personal life. The latter part on the Time Warner merger provided a lot of details from her original New Yorker articles and new intererviews for the book. At times she was very enamored of Ross but that was his strength. However this was balanced in the end where Ross's light seemed to have diminished.

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Michael T.

Interesting story about an exciting businessman -

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2015

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Great story about an impressive deal maker / businessman / entrepreneur. He ran a lot of interesting companies that I was interested in learning more about and did so in an exciting way.

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Noel Rappe

Hard to like

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2013

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This man is not the sort of person you want as a friend or neighbor. I stopped reading before I was very far into it.

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JDK

What a ride! What a life!

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2014

I knew him when I was a kid. And I knew a bunch of the "characters" in his circle. But as a kid, I couldn't possibly understand the swirling mess that was the reality of who Steve was. I feel sorry for Toni, my senior prom date and friend for a New York minute. And for Carol, always elegant. I see Albert in a new, and somewhat glaring light. And can only laugh remembering "Cunning Stunt" every time Caesar is mentioned. Good read, especially if one knew the players.

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A very good book

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2003

Connie Bruck, along with Joe Nocera is probably American's best living business writer and this is another great work from her.
A good story about a man who starts off running his father in law's funeral palor and winds up the head of one the world's biggest companies.
Bruck spends a lot of time discussing the charm and the personality of Ross and admits that Ross is someone that she really likes. The book does not have the balance of her previous book, The Predators Ball, but does not Michael Milken as subject matter like that book did too.
I would definitely recommend owning a copy of this book.
Don McNay...

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SNG Media

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2016

One of the best biographies I have read with great insight on how to sell the invisible. .

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2006

Although I'm a Connie Bruck fan, I came away from Master of the Game disappointed. Perhaps my expectations were too great from having wanted to read the book for a long time. It's a good book and has interesting points, but you walk away without a real feeling of who Steve Ross was and what made him tick.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2019

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Perspectives: I read this book in 1994 and again in 2015. It is one of the best "businessman" autobiographies I have ever read.

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This is one of my favorite "businessman" autobiographies of all time. I read it for the first time around 1994 when I was a young man starting out on my business career. Steve Ross was one of my original business heroes. Interestingly, I just finished reading it for the second time in 2015 and I realize that he had so much genius in addition to so many flaws. I draw many parallels with Steve Ross and Steven Jobs, whose autobiography I read three times last year. They are both products of the era in which they thrived, and of course in completely separate industries, but their creative genius, relentless deal-making skills, ability to focus when necessary, and their tenacious belief in melding others to see a future they saw as plain as today are very similar. Interestingly, they both died relatively early at the peak of their respective careers. It really makes you think about the concept of; "The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long". This book is set in a business landscape of days gone past, and I am not sure if there is much to emulate from Steven Ross's character (in the same way I do not choose to emulate much if any of Steven Job's character), but the inspiration from their genius is what makes me read the life stories over and over.

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