Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
McLuhan’s demanding and prescient meditation on the modern media landscape is a classic of sixties pop science. From the man who coined the phrase ‘global village’.
Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
A comprehensive account of the spectacular collapse of Enron. For anyone who still needs to be persuaded that corporate scandals are human dramas.
The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everyone Else by Kim Masters
With his future at Disney hanging in the balance, this book charts Eisner’s stormy progress through the media ranks. Wolff calls Eisner ‘a sort of corporate Michael Jackson’.
The Man Who Tried to Buy the World: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal by Jo Johnson and Martine Orange
Messier’s march on Hollywood laid bare, and the cautionary tale of a corporate culture clash.
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