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1) Barbarians at the gate: the fall of RJR Nabisco

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This book recounts the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988. It is the story of deal makers and publicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms--giving us not only a detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. Recounts the twenty-five billion dollar battle for control...

2) Fools rush in: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the unmaking of AOL Time Warner

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Munk, Nina

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HarperBusiness

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c2004

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Every era has its merger; every era has its story. For the New Media age it was an even bigger disaster: the AOL-Time Warner deal. At the time AOL and Time Warner were considered a matchless combination of old media content and new media distribution. But very soon after the deal was announced things started to go bad-and then from bad to worse. Less than four years after the deal was announced, every significant figure in the deal -save the politically...