In All His Glory : The Life of William S. Paley (SIGNED) The Legendary Tycoon & His Brilliant Circle
Smith, Sally B.
Place Published: New York, NY, U.S.A.:
Publisher: Simon & Schuster,
Date Published: 1990.
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2) 782 pages with index plus 30 pages black and white pages. This book is in NEAR FINE condition with minor wear to board edges. Dust jacket is in NEAR FINE condition with minor shelfwear. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. Comes with BRODART archival dust jacket cover. JMVINTAGE specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Ducness of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Dust jacket reads: "He is to American broadcasting as Carnegie was to steel, Ford to automobiles, Luce to publishing, and Ruth to baseball," wrote The New York Times of William S. Paley, television's greatest tycoon. From a handful of radio stations, he built CBS, the "Tiffany Network" of Murrow and Cronkite, Lucille Ball and Jack Benny, creating shows that left a mark on American life. With his second wife, Babe, the beauty who defined glamour for three decades, Paley moved in the inner circle of New York society, hobnobbing with the Astors and the Vanderbilts, dazzling the beautiful people with his exuberance and charm. But who was the man beneath the polished veneer? In All His Glory takes a hard look at Paley and the perfect world he created for him-self, a world where even the best was never good enough. Smith (who covered the media for The New York Times) takes us into all of Paley's realms-public and private, business and social, revealing the extraordinary complexity of the man who let nothing get in the way of his vast ambitions. Tracing his life from Chicago, where Paley was born to a family of cigar makers, to the glamorous haunts of Manhattan, Smith shows us sides of the man his friends never saw-the shrewd, demanding egoist, the hedonist pursuing every form of pleasure, the corporate strong-man famous for his energy and his ruthlessness. We see Paley's business triumphs-and the mistakes his phalanx of public relations men covered up. We see talented men like Frank Stanton, who helped Paley build the company and who learned, often the hard way, that friendship came second to profits. And we see Paley forced out of the network he built and then returning as a figurehead after Laurence Tisch took command of CBS. Smith also tells the moving story of Babe Paley, one of "the fabulous Cushing sisters," who wrapped New York around her finger. We watch how this avatar of style and elegance bore her husband's constant demands-and a long history of extramarital affairs-with a composure that broke only at the end, as she faced death from lung cancer. With a supporting cast of Truman Capote, Slim Keith, Jock Whitney, Jacqueline Onassis, Ted Turner, David Sarnoff, Brooke Astor, Marietta Tree, Steve Ross, Diane Sawyer, James Aubrey, and a parade of Paley's humiliated heirs, In All His Glory is a richly textured story of business, power and social ambition. Drawing on highly placed CBS sources and hundreds of interviews, Smith paints a portrait of a man bent on the conquest of business rivals, of women, of the radio and television stars that made CBS glamorous, and of the WASP high society he aspired to. In All His Glory is a stunning achievement. --------
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0671617354
Book Id: 9638
Price: $37.50
