The Man Who Tried to Buy the World : Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal by Jo Johnson, Martine Orange

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New York, New York, U.S.A. 2003 Hard Cover First Printing Good + in Good + jacket Remainder. 8vo-over 7"-9" tall. Non-price clipped dj has mild scuffing with a tiny closed tear at front spine corner. Board edges have mild shelfwear. Remainder mark on bottom page edges, mild finger smudges to page edges. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding.

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Very good An account of the rise and fall of France's best-known company, Vivendi Universal, currently at the center of a criminal probe by the U.S. Department of Justice and French prosecutors as well as a stock market investigation by the SEC.

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2003 Hard cover First edition. Illustrated. New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 268 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Bramd New-Gift Quality In a plastic cover

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2003 Hard cover Illustrated. New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 268 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Book Description The extraordinary rise and fall of Vivendi Universal's flamboyant CEO, Jean-Marie Messier. Jean-Marie Messier has been called the most ambitious French empire builder since Napoleon. He started as a bureaucrat at a sleepy French water utility, but he dreamed of being a global media mogul like Rupert Murdoch. And like Napoleon, he shocked the world with his accomplishments-until his inevitable downfall. In just six years, through guile, luck, and clever accounting, Messier managed to gobble up media assets as diverse as MCA Records, Universal Studios, USA Networks, and various publishers, theme parks, videogame producers, and Internet companies on both sides of the Atlantic. He turned Vivendi Universal into a serious challenger to AOL Time Warner, News Corp., Viacom, and Disney. And in the process, he became a poster boy for the ne

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New York 2003 Hard cover First American Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Very good in very good dust jacket. Black mark on bottom edge. xvi, 268 p. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Notes. Index. Two reporters for Le Monde detail how Jean-Marie Messier took a conservative French water company and made it into a media conglomerate, Vivendi Universal. The authors describe how Messier's hubris led to the takeover of more companies than he could manage, among them many American media assets, and his eventual ousting in a boardroom coup.

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New. Contains very slight shelf wear (like you would see in a major chain store). Very nice copy. Looks like an interesting title!

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