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In All His Glory: The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting

August 4, 2013

This is a long (at slightly over 600 pages), but very readable expose of the life of CBS mogul William S. Paley. As the author states at the outset he was a very complicated man filled with contradictions.

We follow him as he raised CBS to be a nationwide radio enterprise and then make the transition to TV. In this Paley was less innovator and much more a juggling entrepreneur – listening too and balancing several ideas before finally taking the plunge. Inevitably, much to the annoyance of his business associates, he would usually take the credit for the success of various operations which were initiated by others. And woe to those who were even mildly involved in a less than successful business activity. Even if Paley was warned beforehand of the dubious nature of the project, he would search for, and blame, the necessary scapegoats.

Reading through the book can be at times like an episode of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” with lists of jewellery, furniture and oth

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In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley, the Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle

Sally Bedell Smith. Simon & Schuster, $29.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-61735-6

A big, riveting biography of William Paley, the Chicago cigarmaker's son who built the CBS television empire and reigned as its chairman until 1983, this blockbuster tears away the layers of self-aggrandizing mythology Paley has woven about himself. Former New York Times media reporter Smith presents an often unflattering but never malicious portrait of Paley, now 88, as a cold, power-hungry, insecure narcissist, a ``compulsive womanizer'' and tyrannical paterfamilias who ``tolerated'' his six children. Ambivalent about his Jewish origins, Paley equated ``WASP acceptance with success.'' According to Smith, the free-swinging tycoon was dictatorial and controlling with worldly first wife Dorothy Hart Hearst; his second wife, Barbara Cushing Mortimer, ``devoted her life to creating a perfect world'' for her demanding, ever-unfaithful husband. Packed with revelations, rich in radio and TV lore, sprinkled with intrig

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In All His Glory

The Life of William S. Paley
The Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle

He is to American broadcasting as Carnegie was to steel, Ford to automobiles, Luce to publishing, and Ruth to baseball,” wrote The New York Times of William S. Paley–the man who built CBS, the “Tiffany Network.” Sally Bedell Smith’s In All His Glory takes a hard look at Paley and the perfect world he created for himself, revealing the extraordinary complexity of the man who let nothing get in the way of his vast ambitions. Tracing his life from Chicago, where Paley was born to a family of cigar makers, to the glamorous haunts of Manhattan, Smith shows us the shrewd, demanding egoist, the hedonist pursuing every form of pleasure, the corporate strongman famous for his energy and ruthlessness.