In All His Glory: The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting

New York: Touchstone, 1990. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 1x6x9. First paperback printing. An exceptional copy. 1990 Trade Paperback. 788 pp. "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 Willian S. Paley - the man who built CBS, the "Tiffany Network." Sally Bedell Smith's In All His Glory takes a hard look at Paley and the perfect world he created for himself, 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, (truncated) to the glamorous haunts of Manhattan, Smith shows us the shrewd, demanding egoist, the hedonist pursuing every form of pleasure, the corporate strongman famous for his energy and ruthlessness. (Inventory #: 2337628)