Warner Bros. / Time Warner
Companiesmedia-entertainment
A studio and conglomerate defined by serial mergers; the AOL deal alone generated several of the best merger post-mortems written.
9 books · 1 people behind it
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- Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time WarnerNina Munk, 2004
- Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time WarnerConnie Bruck, 1994
- It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBOFelix Gillette, John Koblin, 2022
The people behind it 1
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Journalists 1
Books 9
Connie Bruck · 1994 · How Ross built the conglomerate and forced the Time merger.
Nina Munk · 2004 · The best-regarded narrative of the worst merger in history.
Alec Klein · 2003 · Washington Post reporting on AOL's accounting and the merger.
Kara Swisher · 2003 · The AOL side of the merger, reported as it collapsed.
Richard Schickel · 2008 · Illustrated studio history tied to the documentary of the same name.
David Thomson · 2017 · Short critical history of the brothers and the studio style.
Felix Gillette, John Koblin · 2022 · HBO, the asset that carried the group through three owners.
Cass Warner Sperling, Cork Millner · 1994 · Family insider history of the studio's founding generation.
Robert Goldberg, Gerald Jay Goldberg · 1995 · Turner Broadcasting, absorbed by Time Warner in 1996.