Call Me Ted
The Autobiography of the Extraordinary Business Leader and Founder of CNN
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Publisher Description
CNN, AOL/Time Warner, Jane Fonda, The America's Cup: Ted Turner's story is the stuff of legend. Never before has the controversial businessman shared his personal journey. Here, for the first time, he will.
In this exceptional book, Turner spares no details of his extraordinary career and provides fascinating businesses insights along the way. Turner will also reveal the never-before-told details of his personal life. He frankly discusses a childhood of loneliness (he was sent to boarding school at the age of 4), the impact of devastating loss (his sister died at 17 and his hard-charging father committed suicide when Ted was in his early 20s). Turner also goes into great detail about his marriages, including his marriage to Jane Fonda, the "love of my life."
It's been a helluva ride -- a story to educate, enlighten, entertain, and inspire.
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"I don't spend a lot of time dwelling on the past or thinking about myself," Turner claims, but the media tycoon turns out to have a pretty good memory except for certain events, like the death of his younger sister, which he admits he's suppressed completely. After dropping out of college, Turner worked his way up from the bottom of his father's billboard company, which he inherited when his father committed suicide, and then slowly turned it into an international media empire an uphill battle he records in entertaining detail ("I don't think of myself as losing," he says of the occasional setbacks, drawing on his experiences as a champion sailor. "I'm simply learning how to win"). Turner's version of events is frequently interrupted by supplementary "Ted Stories" from those closest to him, including his children and business colleagues even competitors. These commentaries are not always complimentary; in two passages, ex-wife Jane Fonda candidly discusses the psychological blocks she believes keep him from achieving full emotional and spiritual intimacy. There's little to challenge Turner's provocative reputation, but his reflections reveal the depth of calculation behind his career as a so-called loose cannon. Correction: The correct publisher of The Empathy Gap, reviewed Oct. 27, is Viking.
