- Fiction, Television broadcasting, Television broadcasting in fiction, Businessmen
Jack Lear is a predator driven by unbridled ambition. He makes a great fortune as a pioneering radio and television broadcaster, founds a network, and marries two beautiful socialites, but despite his conquests he continues to hunger for what he cannot have - the social respectability of old money.
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Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Harold Robbins
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 424
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell, BCA, Pocket
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9781568653150
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Harold Rubin (Harold Francis Rubin) wrote his novels under the name of Harold Robbins.
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