A struggle is taking place--not just among corporate titans, but among entire industries. At stake is the communications industry. The contestants are Hollywood studios, television networks, and cable, telephone, computer, publishing, and consumer-electronics companies. The author takes the reader behind the scenes at such companies as Disney, Viacom, Microsoft, Time Warner, and Telecommunications, Inc. He chronicles the vanities and visions of such men as Rupert Murdoch, John Malone, Michael Eisner, Sumner Redstone, Bill Gates, Barry Diller, Ted Turner, Michael Ovitz, and Gerald Levin.
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