Empire

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A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon
In this fast-paced book, named one of the "Top Ten of 2001" by BusinessWeek, Mitchell Pacelle tells the gripping story of the ten-year struggle for control of America's most famous skyscraper—a tale of greed and duplicity that consumed, and nearly destroyed, some of the real estate world's most controversial tycoons.
"Makes for dehcious reading it is a grand human comedy, and Mitchell Pacelle
has a fine time with it." —The Washington Post
"Who'd have thought that real estate dealings could read like a gossipy novel of intrigue?" —Entertainment Weelcly
"Features legal wrangling, political posturing, family feuds, financial high jinks, and lost fortunes a finely wrought narrative that embodies the style— and the hysteria—of New York real estate."
—USA Today
"Bluster, temperamental outbursts, one-line putdowns and endless deviousness, all meticulously recorded by Mr. Pacelle."... Tovább

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SIG.95 USA/S2G.5D CAN/Ll2.g5 UK
A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon
In this fast-paced book, named one of the "Top Ten of 2001" by BusinessWeek, Mitchell Pacelle tells the gripping story of the ten-year struggle for control of America's most famous skyscraper—a tale of greed and duplicity that consumed, and nearly destroyed, some of the real estate world's most controversial tycoons.
"Makes for dehcious reading it is a grand human comedy, and Mitchell Pacelle
has a fine time with it." —The Washington Post
"Who'd have thought that real estate dealings could read like a gossipy novel of intrigue?" —Entertainment Weelcly
"Features legal wrangling, political posturing, family feuds, financial high jinks, and lost fortunes a finely wrought narrative that embodies the style— and the hysteria—of New York real estate."
—USA Today
"Bluster, temperamental outbursts, one-line putdowns and endless deviousness, all meticulously recorded by Mr. Pacelle." —Tlje Economist
"Great business writing and even greater gossip reads like a cross between film noir and a Harold Rohbins novel." —Publishers Weekly
MITCHELL PACELLE is an award-winning journalist who has covered business for The Wall Street Journal over the past eleven years. He won the New York Press Club's 1999 Business Reporting Award, was a finalist for UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and was part of the team nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the collapse of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund. Vissza