Autumn of the Moguls
My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SHOCKING NEW BOOK SHAKING US POLITICS: FIRE AND FURY, INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITEHOUSE
A riveting, barnstorming, thrilling ride through the loud, lively and all-embracing world of the modern media conglomerates – its key deals, dealmakers, divas and delusions.
The global media industry has never been more powerful. And there is no more astute, forthright and entertaining chronicler of this roller-coaster world than award-winning writer Michael Wolff. In ‘Autumn of the Moguls’, a funny, frank, and incendiary account that looks hard at the great characters of this media age – from homes and gardens empress Martha Stewart to Disney czar Michael Eisner – he has written the guide we all need to the media, a world that is often more entertaining than what it produces.
Reviews
‘Apparently trivial, then segues into saying something original and profound about contemporary American society. He’s fearless in a way you don't often find among hacks today, chopping away at the legs of the most powerful men and women of our era like a jungle scout with a machete. He’s also very funny. When he’s on top form, he’s as good as Tom Wolfe.’ Toby Young, Books of the Year, Observer
‘Michael Wolff has been throwing custard pies at the rich and powerful since he was appointed New York magazine’s media columnist in 1998. “Autumn of the Moguls” is his greatest hits…he’s the Alexander Pope of the mogul set. If you had to have dinner with the most powerful journalists and businessmen in America – and Wolff describes just such a ghastly occasion in Chapter 22 – he’s the man you'd want to sit next to.’ Spectator
‘“Autumn of the Moguls” makes the 1 per cent grade of business literature that transcend the dutifully competent or ambitiously inept. A stylish writer of enormous wit, Wolff chooses an epic theme and writes with an incisiveness which not only makes you laugh but also demonstrates truths about business remarkably well.’ Observer
‘You should read this book. It is funny and extremely clever.’ New Statesman
‘A slice of heaven…Wolff’s talent is for taking a big idea and whacking it at you with added spin. Witty as well as hugely entertaining, provocative, sharp and spitefully funny. It is, most of all, a snapshot of an extraordinary time in the American media.’ Guardian
‘A hyperbolic and brilliantly truthful description of the creation of the media world…very funny.’ Daily Telegraph
‘Undeniably good.’ Financial Times
‘Clever, amusing, entertaining.’ Sunday Telegraph
About the author
Michael Wolff is a US National Magazine Award winner and two-time nominee. He is the author of the US best-seller Burn Rate, amongst other books. His media journalism also appears regularly in the Guardian and New York magazine. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
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When the Internet boom began, Wolff set out to make a fortune and wound up with a bestselling memoir chronicling his failure (Burn Rate). Successfully reinventing himself as an industry pundit, most notably for New York magazine, he's reached the point where, as he boasts here, "f there was a media party, I'd be invited to it." (He can even produce a guest list as proof.) This book centers on one such party: an industry conference where he's enlisted to interview Rupert Murdoch. Onto this foundation he piles digression after digression until he has offered up a catty remark about just about every major player in the media biz. Thus "gray and corpulent" Fox News head Roger Ailes is "one of the great creepy figures of the age," and even Walter Isaacson, acknowledged as the "fantasy life" figure for journalists of the author's generation, is eventually skewered as "the most self-important person in class at Harvard." All this heel-nipping serves as anecdotal support for Wolff's contention that the industry is a chain of con games in which the last domino is about to fall and Wolff is the only one brave enough to say so. Eventually, every topic returns to the subject of the author as industry outsider, with other people existing so that he might have opinions of them. A thin veneer of self-effacement does nothing to blunt the tremendous display of ego slathered over this superficial analysis.
