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In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley: The Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle.
In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley: The Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle
THE TITLE and, in particular, the double subtitle of Sally Bedell Smith's biography sound sarcastic, almost farcical. But they suggest what William S. Paley was all about: his image, his work--the running of CBS--and his desperate need to surround himself with a circle of rich, gentile socialites. To be a business legend in his time and to be one of the Beautiful People were his chief ambitions. As Smith's study shows, in both cases he achieved a flawed success.
This is a big book about a big man who was active almost to the day of his death, last October 26, at age 89. The author carefully examines his life and its mystery. The mystery is not what he did; that is detailed in 608 pages of text and 115 pages of bibliography and notes. It is how he made everything come together so well. Bill Paley was by turns staunchly determined and pathologically indecisive; he was given to selecting brilliant subordinates and then alienating or firing them; and he was as apt to tell a lie as the truth about his operations. How…
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