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Kerry Packer : tall tales & true stories, Michael Stahl

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Kerry Packer was instrumental in shaping Australia's media landscape and culture. For 30 years he controlled television's perennial ratings leader Channel Nine, and a large percentage of the nation's most influential magazines. So much of what Australians watched, read and believed came through the prism of this larger-than-life man. Beneath all the billionaire clutter, Kerry Packer had plenty in common with the average Jo: a cheeky humour, a competitive drive, deep love for his kids, a passion for sports and movies. In business, Kerry Packer would fight to the last dollar in a deal. Yet the same man would take his private jet to Las Vegas and lose more than $20 million in a week - then leave a $1 million tip. In his Park Street, Sydney office, where the visitors' chairs were clustered in front of his giant desk, Packer would verbally dissect a hapless executive, but no less often, the very same man would step in silently and invisibly when hardship or tragedy struck a loyal staffer or their family. Packer bulldozed through his dyslexic condition with a steel-trap mind and by asking an awful lot of questions. The son of a father who shunned him, he inherited a business in 1974 valued at perhaps $100m. When he died 31 years later, on Boxing Day 2005, he would hand his own much-loved son, James, control of a media, property, agriculture and gambling empire worth $6.9 billion. Kerry Packer: Tall Tales and True Stories is a collection of stories, gathered from people who knew him, from those who have documented him, and from the folklore that inevitably grew up around him
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eng
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Kerry Packer : tall tales & true stories
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Kerry Packer
Title remainder
tall tales & true stories
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Michael Stahl
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Kerry Packer
Title variation remainder
tall tales and true stories
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eng
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Kerry Packer was instrumental in shaping Australia's media landscape and culture. For 30 years he controlled television's perennial ratings leader Channel Nine, and a large percentage of the nation's most influential magazines. So much of what Australians watched, read and believed came through the prism of this larger-than-life man. Beneath all the billionaire clutter, Kerry Packer had plenty in common with the average Jo: a cheeky humour, a competitive drive, deep love for his kids, a passion for sports and movies. In business, Kerry Packer would fight to the last dollar in a deal. Yet the same man would take his private jet to Las Vegas and lose more than $20 million in a week - then leave a $1 million tip. In his Park Street, Sydney office, where the visitors' chairs were clustered in front of his giant desk, Packer would verbally dissect a hapless executive, but no less often, the very same man would step in silently and invisibly when hardship or tragedy struck a loyal staffer or their family. Packer bulldozed through his dyslexic condition with a steel-trap mind and by asking an awful lot of questions. The son of a father who shunned him, he inherited a business in 1974 valued at perhaps $100m. When he died 31 years later, on Boxing Day 2005, he would hand his own much-loved son, James, control of a media, property, agriculture and gambling empire worth $6.9 billion. Kerry Packer: Tall Tales and True Stories is a collection of stories, gathered from people who knew him, from those who have documented him, and from the folklore that inevitably grew up around him
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contains biographical information
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Stahl, Michael
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070.5092
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non fiction
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  • Packer, Kerry
  • Packer, Kerry
  • Packer, Kerry
  • Packer, Kerry
  • Packer, Kerry
  • Businesspeople
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Mass media
  • Billionaires
  • Mass media
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Broadcasting
  • Mass media
  • Millionaires
  • Broadcasting
  • Millionaires
  • Broadcasting
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Mass media
  • Businessmen
  • Businessmen
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adult
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Kerry Packer : tall tales & true stories, Michael Stahl
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volume
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
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000054334998
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
224 pages
Isbn
9781742708508
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(paperback)
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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9781742708508
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(OCoLC)904227819
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Kerry Packer : tall tales & true stories, Michael Stahl
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000054334998
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
224 pages
Isbn
9781742708508
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
9781742708508
System control number
(OCoLC)904227819

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