Kerry Packer : tall tales & true stories

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The work Kerry Packer : tall tales & true stories represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Kerry Packer : tall tales & true stories

Title remainder

tall tales & true stories

Statement of responsibility

Michael Stahl

Title variation

Kerry Packer

Title variation remainder

tall tales and true stories

Creator

• Stahl, Michael

Contributor

• Stahl, Michael

Author

• Stahl, Michael

Subject

• Broadcasting -- Australia -- Anecdotes
• Broadcasting -- Australia -- Biography
• Businessmen
• Businessmen -- Australia
• Businesspeople -- Australia -- Anecdotes
• trueMass media -- Australia
• Mass media -- Australia -- Anecdotes
• Mass media -- Australia -- Biography
• Millionaires -- Australia -- Anecdotes
• Millionaires -- Australia -- Biography
• Packer, Kerry
• Packer, Kerry
• Packer, Kerry, 1937-2005
• Packer, Kerry, 1937-2005 -- Anecdotes
• truePublishers and publishing -- Australia
• Publishers and publishing -- Australia -- Anecdotes
• truePublishers and publishing -- Australia -- Biography
• trueBillionaires -- Australia -- Biography
• Broadcasting -- Australia

Genre

• trueBiography
• trueAnecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

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

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

BVISBN

Dewey number

070.5092

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult