Branson

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 384 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Helped by eyewitness accounts of more than 250 people with direct experience of Branson, Tom Bower has a uncovered a different tale to the one so eagerly promoted by Virgins publicists. Here is the full story of Branson: his businesses, his friendships, his ambition, his law-breaking, his drug-taking, his bullying. From the cockpit of a balloon in the clouds to the centre of Bransons operations in his Holland Park home, the book is an intimate scrutiny of exactly how Richard Branson created himself and sold himself. Tom Bowers biography reveals Branson to be a single-minded profiteer who, while occasionally generous to others, has a fixed purpose to enhance his familys wealth in secret off-shore trust funds. Instead of a glittering saint, Branson emerges as a devious actor, proud of plucking for his own profit the good ideas of others. Now 50, Branson finds himself battling for survival. The man who so wanted to run the nations lottery is, up close, something of a lottery himself.

ISBN: 9781841153865