The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood by Tom King

The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood by Tom King • Hardcover • Random House; First Edition (March 7, 2000) • 688 Pages Condition: Excellent / Sans Dust-Jacket ———————————————————————- Complex, contentious, and blessed with the perfect-pitch ability to find the next big talent, David Geffen has shaped American popular culture for the last three decades. His dazzling career has included the roles of power agent, record-industry mogul, Broadway producer, and billionaire Hollywood studio founder. As a manager in the 1960s, he made the deal for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to appear at Woodstock. He discovered Jackson Browne and the Eagles and masterminded Bob Dylan's famed 1974 tour. He produced Risky Business, making Tom Cruise a star, and was the moneyman behind Cats, the longest-running musical in Broadway history. At his best, David Geffen is a fiercely devoted friend and a bountifully generous man, both privately and publicly. At his worst, he is a vindictive bully who lashes out at loved ones and colleagues with irrational screaming fits that leave his victims shaking and sweating. In The Operator, Tom King has set the record straight. Written with Geffen's cooperation, The Operator is an explosive, illusion-shattering story that details the mogul's indisputable contributions to entertainment history while also baring the man behind the legend.