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Title: Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon by Robert Goldberg, Gerald Jay Goldberg ISBN: 0-15-118008-3 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: July, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A sensational chronology, rather than biography
Comment: From the very start, it is plain the Goldbergs lack any primary sources for their book, since there the exploration of Turner's character and personal decisions tend to be more conjecture than anything else. This book seems to do a good job of listing each of the various public decisions and people in Turner's life, but the important decisions and events are glossed over. For instance: The Goldbergs repeatedly note how Turner micromanaged his companies, only promoted from within, and didn't allow his senior managers and board to make major decisions. Yet, by the time CNN was created, Turner was clearly ignoring his billboard company, and TBS seemed to be cranking along fine. What did Turner think of these people, and what were they doing that made the cash flow possible for Turner to lose so much money while CNN was started up?
The book also has a facination with the chronology of his womanizing. While distaining his extramarital sexual adventures, the Goldbergs seem to do little more than count the notches in Turner's bedpost. Sure they do some pop-psychological analysis, but has no discussion of how his womanizing may have affected other parts of his life, family, and businesses -- especially when the affairs became so blatently open in the 70's and 80's.
Read this book if you want to know what happened in Turner's life up until the First Gulf War (the book was written before Turner's empire was bought by Time Warner), but don't expect a whole lot of insight to his personal life and business genius.
Rating: 5
Summary: A unique study of a unique personality.
Comment: The Goldbergs tie Ted Turner into such a tight package that the reader is left with the impression that their impression is one-sided. But his monomorphism seems to naturally follow his fascinating upbringing and the shaping of an incredible domineering father. And then, when one hears post-Citizen Turner interviews and follows the news about Ted, the authors are vindicated. They've got him pegged! Very easily readable
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Title: Ted Turner: It Ain't As Easy as It Looks: A Biography by Porter Bibb ISBN: 155566203X Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Operator : David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood by Thomas R. King ISBN: 0767907574 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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