Award-winning journalist Connie Bruckâs biography of media mogul Steve Ross captures the highs and lows of Rossâs career in a narrative âas fast-paced as the life it depictsâ (Publishers Weekly).
Born to Jewish immigrant parents in 1920s Brooklyn, Steven Jay Rechnitz would become an unstoppable force in the world of business, a figure both revered and reviled by those who knew him. His early venturesâa limousine rental service operated under the auspices of his father-in-lawâs Manhattan funeral home and a parking lot company whose co-owners harbored dubious connections to the criminal underworldâinspired a taste for substantial risk that was outpaced only by Rossâs success in turning that risk into profit. In a career that spanned both Wall Street and Hollywood, Rossâs mastery of obfuscation, deflection, denial, and his imaginative approach to the law finally culminated in the empire he had long craved: Time Warner, the largest media and entertainment company in the world. Extraordinary in its depth of coverage, startling in its frankness, Master of the Game is a riveting journey through the mind and career of a man who was by turns flamboyant, charismatic, and completely outrageousâan unstoppable force in the pursuit of an outsized dream.