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He served as right-hand man/enforcer for both Australian media magnate Kerry Packer and recently deceased British billionaire Sir James Goldsmith.
was David Plotz's embrace of the one magnate who has done more to bring down the standards of journalism worldwide than any other.
When Johnson turns to the 19 th century, he continues to reward us with lively prose and well-crafted sketches of people--mostly presidents and big business leaders such as the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and the banker J. Pierpont Morgan (this is decidedly a top-down history, in which the poor, labor union leaders, and minority groups receive far less attention than in most scholarly histories these days).
A new biography prompts a round of comparisons between the Standard Oil magnate (1839-1937) and Microsoft's CEO, Bill Gates--both exploit(ed) labor and use(d) unfair tactics to dominate new industries.
"If I told you their names," says Sydney Pollack, playing a mysterious magnate who befriends Harford, "I don't think you'd sleep so well."