Stealing Time. Steve Case, Jerry Levin and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Hardback. First Edition. Stealing Time. In January 2000, America Online and Time Warner announced the largest merger in U.S.history, a deal that would create the biggest media company in the world. It weas celebrated as the marriage of new media and old media, a potent combination of the nation's No. 1 Internet company and the country's leading entertainment giant, the owner of such internationally renowned brands as Warner Bros., HBO, CNN, and Time magazine. But only three years later, nearly all the top executives behind the merger had resigned, the company had lost tens of billions of dollars in market value, and the U.S. government had begun two investigations into its business dealings. Hod wid the deal of the century become an epic disaster? This is a riveting story of ambition, hubris, and greed set amid the boom-and-bust years of the technology bubble. it is filled with outsized personalities - Steve Case, Jerry Levin, Bob Pittman, Ted Turner, and many more. Based on hundreds of confidential company documents and intervies with key players in this unfolding drama, this book is a fascianating tale of the swift rise and even swifter fall of AOL Time Warner. 337 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth & Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hadrback.