Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media. Michael Wolff
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Autumn of the Moguls
My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media
Michael Wolff
HARPER PERENNIAL
for Alison
Contents
Book ONE: Spring and Summer 2002
7 THE MISSING (MEL AND SUMNER)
11 MORE MICHAELS AND MORE DINNER
P. S. Ideas interviews & features …
A flashback, already
On the tenth day of the new millennium, Bruce Judson, a former Time Inc.-er, left a long message on my machine. Judson, who had formerly been an assistant to various high-ranking Time Inc. ministers, was making a joke, which I only half listened to, about some meeting we had been at together.
Judson and I—with Time managing editor and future CNN chairman Walter Isaacson—had sat on a committee at Time Warner that had decided to recommend that the company not buy AOL in 1994. But why