Description: Rupert Murdoch has spent most of a lifetime building his company, News Corp., from a small newspaper business in Australia into a global media empire. And he has plans to accomplish far more. Neil Chenoweth has been on the Murdoch story for the past ten years and is the perfect person to reveal what no one else ever has.Rupert Murdoch is both a biography of Murdoch the man (including his divorce and remarriage to a woman young enough to be his granddaughter, and the struggle between his sons for eventual control of the family holdings) and a "follow the money" investigation that reveals how Murdoch has managed to have such a huge inpact on the communications revolution that promises to utterly transform life in the 21st century. The cast of characters ranges from Newt Gingrich, Michael Eisner, and Pat Robertson to a fugitive from American justice who masterminded Murdoch's most secret enterprise.Concentrating on Murdoch's three great empire-building campaigns, including his current ambition to dominate satellite broadcasting across the entire planet, Rupert Murdoch is the story of a man who is showing us the exciting and disquie

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