Newhouse

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Newhouse is the first full-scale biography of the turbulent life and business career of Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr., who could arguably be described as the most powerful private citizen in America. Controlling a fortune esti-mated to be in excess of thirteen billion dollars, Si and his brother Donald are rich-er than the Queen of England, or Bill Gates, or Ross Perot, or any of the Kennedys, Rockefellers, or Hearsts. But Newhouse is not primarily about the accumulation of money by a family that two générations ago was literally impoverished. Rather, it is a book about power.
Born into poverty, Sam Newhouse left his sons a huge fortune, based on a suc-cessful (if largely undistinguished) group of regional newspapers. Under Si's leadership, the family s wealth has grown m any times over, and he is a figure to be reck-oned with in many worlds, including poli-tics, art, fashion, television, and literature. A shy, almost reclusive man, Si Newhouse is capable of instinctive, often... Tovább

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Newhouse is the first full-scale biography of the turbulent life and business career of Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr., who could arguably be described as the most powerful private citizen in America. Controlling a fortune esti-mated to be in excess of thirteen billion dollars, Si and his brother Donald are rich-er than the Queen of England, or Bill Gates, or Ross Perot, or any of the Kennedys, Rockefellers, or Hearsts. But Newhouse is not primarily about the accumulation of money by a family that two générations ago was literally impoverished. Rather, it is a book about power.
Born into poverty, Sam Newhouse left his sons a huge fortune, based on a suc-cessful (if largely undistinguished) group of regional newspapers. Under Si's leadership, the family s wealth has grown m any times over, and he is a figure to be reck-oned with in many worlds, including poli-tics, art, fashion, television, and literature. A shy, almost reclusive man, Si Newhouse is capable of instinctive, often brilliant décisions, such as his moves to buy Ran-dom House or The New Yorker. Generous to his executives, he can also be swift and brutal in regular shake-ups and public exécutions within his empire. Of what does this empire consist?
Newspapers. Two dozen papers, including The Cleveland Piain Dealer, The Portland Oregonian, The New Orleans
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Times-Picaytine, and Parade, the national Sunday supplement.
• Magazines. The Condé Nast group of over forty magazines around the world, including Vanity Fair, Vogue, Self, Architectural Digest, and The New Yorker.
• Books. America's largest publishing group, including Random House, Knopf, Crown, Ballantine, Modern Library, Vintage, and Fodors (among others).
• Broadcasting. Investments in The Discoveiy Channel, The Learning Channel, and several major cable opérations around the country.
Quiet, enigmatic, and publicity-shy, Si Newhouse exercises more power in more realms than any other press lord in history. Newhouse is brilliant, exhaustively re-searched, and compulsively readable, and sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.
THOMAS MAIERisan award-winning business and investigative reporter who has worked for New York Newsday for over seven years. He lives in East North-port, New York.
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