Citizen Newhouse: Portrait Of A Media Merchant

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Summary: As If She were there
Review: A crime to have cut trees for this tripe. Poor grammar; confusuing; gossipy gushing; zero insights into their business affairs; zero facts on thier affairs & escapades; packed with trivial facts

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Summary: Stranger than Fiction
Review: An enormous undertaking, with awesome research, and a comfortable easy read doesn't improve either the personality of or the aura that has surrounded Si Newhouse since his college years. Ms. Felsenthal's portrayal of this self-concerned, thoughtless print media mogul is written with sharp, honest and precise clarity. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and this author has neatly recorded it all. The print fraternity will not like this one!

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Summary: Honest Reporting Never Goes Unpunished
Review: Carol Felsenthal has made all the right moves in research, writing and having published the excellent biography CITIZEN NEWSHOUSE. She interviewed hundreds of people, came up with a strong story line and kept it up hundreds of pages later. Alas, this readable study of a publisher broke an unwritten rule in the business of publishing writers: don't write about us. When finished, Viking accepted her work then, violating its contract, said it wouldn't publish it because "people we know are on every page." It was left to Seven Stories to pick it up. While Ms. Felsenthal didn't have a fatwa issued against her, any freedom-respecting reader should buy a copy to support those who challenge the powers that be simply by writing the truth.

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Summary: As If She were there
Review: This lady has an astounding way of taking you to the moment! The research is awesome and the ability to create the incidents, characteristics, and responses is eerie! It WAS just as Ms. Felsenthal writes.....it was like re-reading a part of my past. This lady's talent is quite remarkable when one considers she's written a page-turner about a somewhat prickly, eccentric, even though very privileged guy!