{"product_id":"war-at-the-wall-street-journal-inside-the-struggle-to-control-an-american-business-empire-isbn-9780547422565","title":"War At The Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tale about big business, an imploding dynasty, a mogul at war, and a deal that epitomized an era of change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile working at the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Sarah Ellison won praise for covering the $5 billion acquisition that transformed the pride of Dow Jones and the estimable but eccentric Bancroft family into the jewel of Rupert Murdoch’s kingdom. Here she expands that story, using her knowledge of the paper and its people to go deep inside the landmark transaction, as no outsider has or can, and also far beyond it, into the rocky transition when Murdoch’s crew tussled with old \u003ci\u003eJournal\u003c\/i\u003e hands and geared up for battle with the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. With access to all the players, Ellison moves from newsrooms to estates and shows Murdoch, finally, for who he is—maneuvering, firing, undoing all that the Bancrofts had protected. Her superlative account transforms news of the deal into a timeless chronicle of American life and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did one of America’s most respected newspapers fall into the hands of its most controversial media titan?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHostile Takeover:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow Rupert Murdoch’s relentless, multi-year campaign to capture his ultimate prize, and the newsroom clash that followed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Bancroft Family:\u003c\/b\u003e Get a rare look inside the eccentric and divided Bancroft family, the reluctant guardians of a media empire who were unprepared for Murdoch’s final assault.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBattle of Media Empires:\u003c\/b\u003e Witness the simmering war between two of New York’s great newspaper dynasties—the Murdochs and the Sulzbergers—as they prepared for a battle for supremacy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDefinitive Business History:\u003c\/b\u003e Drawn from unparalleled access to the boardrooms, newsrooms, and private estates where the deal was forged and fought.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“A scrupulously fair, careful account written from a close distance about how Rupert Murdoch came to own the crown jewel of American business journalism. . .What we get is the mother of all tick-tock, an intimate look at how the Bancroft family fumbled away an asset they never really demonstrated much interest in as Mr. Murdoch pounced. When it comes to taking a measure of Mr. Murdoch, there is little of the moralistic keening that characterized the coverage at the time, with Ms. Ellison instead adopting the tone of an ichthyologist studying the feeding habits of a large, hungry shark.”—David Carr, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sarah Ellison has written a definitive, indeed cinematic, account of the News Corporation’s conquest and occupation of this venerable business publication, and of the subterranean battle of motives and moods in the Bancroft family psychodrama . . . She spins an absorbing yarn played out on super-yachts and in corporate jets, populated by an irresistible cast of characters.” —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e  \"Ellison, who covered the takeover of Dow Jones as a \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e reporter, uses her access . . . to chronicle the deal with precision. Inside the news business such detailed narratives are called \"tick-tocks,\" and hers beats like a metronome.” —\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e  “Balanced and nuanced . . . a riveting and engaging examination of the current state of U.S. media and the drama behind one of its most important companies.” —\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e  “In August 2007 Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation bought the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, ending 105 years of control by the Bancroft family and shaking American journalism. \u003cem\u003eWar at the Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e is the inside scoop.” —\u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Ellison offers a close look into a raw, aggressive power in international commerce.\" —\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/em\u003e \"This is an excellent book.\" —\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e \"A ten-year \u003cem\u003eJournal\u003c\/em\u003e veteran and thoroughly versed in the paper’s culture, the author capably describes the newsroom dynamic, both pre- and post-Murdoch . . . It’s a measure of Ellison’s evenhandedness that, while clearly no Murdoch fan, she candidly exposes the ownership and management deficiencies that made a journalistic icon so vulnerable to capture. A gripping reconstruction of a media story whose implications have yet to fully unfold.\" —\u003cem\u003eKirkus \u003c\/em\u003e \"An insider’s account, though an excerpt suggests that she's ready to be hard on both sides; for anyone who cares about the state of journalism today.\" —\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e \"This is a superb book about a momentous event that we knew less about than we thought. With the surgical skill of a first rate reporter and story teller, Sarah Ellison recounts a true story that reads as if ripped from a novel. It is a saga populated by powerful moguls and institutions, by double dealing individuals and a dysfunctional family. There is not much glory in this tale, but there is much to chew on and digest.\" —Ken Auletta, author of \u003cem\u003eGoogled: The End of the World as We Know It   \u003c\/em\u003e\"Delicious inside stuff. Sarah Ellison seems to have been present at every party, executive office meeting, secret hotel suite conference, corporate plane ride, etc. in Rupert Murdoch’s hijacking of the the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. Everybody appears to have talked with her. It makes for an engrossing read and the definitive account.\" —Mark Bowden, author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Hawk Down   \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"[Ellison] spins an absorbing yarn played out on super-yachts and in corporate jets, populated by an irresistible cast of characters.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A book as devastatingly definitive as any \u003cem\u003eJournal \u003c\/em\u003etick tock.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ellison, who covered the takeover of Dow Jones as a Wall Street Journal reporter, uses her access to ‘all of the significant players in the narrative’…to chronicle the deal with precision. Inside the news business such detailed narratives are called 'tick-tocks,' and hers beats like a metronome.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/em\u003e\"The story behind his takeover of the newspaper is recounted in limber fashion in \u003cem\u003eWar at the Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, by ex-\u003cem\u003eJournal\u003c\/em\u003e reporter Sarah Ellison. . . . Based on her original reporting for the newspaper (and re-reported here), the book is . . . scrupulously documented.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Bloomberg \u003cbr\u003e\"Ellison transforms the daily copy she filed as media reporter for the paper into a nail-biting thriller that delves into the family dysfunction, backroom dealings and ego bruising that characterized the decade’s most fascinating business transaction. There’s a panoply of new material here, from the incessant infighting that rendered Dow Jones’ owners, the Bancroft family, impotent in their final dealings with Murdoch, to the mind-boggling details of the multimillion-dollar severance package paid to Marcus Brauchli, the ousted Journal editor\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e, nonfiction supplement \u003cbr\u003e \"The Dow Jones saga is a fascinating story and you did a terrific job of telling it.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Warren Buffett \"Former Journal reporter Sarah Ellison's War at the Wall Street Journal - a detailed and fast-moving account of Murdoch's 2007 deal to acquire Journal-parent company Dow Jones - couldn't have come at a better time, just as Murdoch begins his battle with the Times....Ellison's book provides not just a deeply investigated back-story of the deal, but also an insider's perspective.\" \u003cbr\u003e—BookForum\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Business","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890137919717,"sku":"NP9780547422565","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780547422565.jpg?v=1730232607","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/war-at-the-wall-street-journal-inside-the-struggle-to-control-an-american-business-empire-isbn-9780547422565","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}