About this title: The true story behind the headline-making event of AT&T's breakup that assesses the long-range implication of divestiture for consumers and for the future of telephone services.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Touchstone Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1st thus, 1988
ISBN-13:9780671645922ISBN:0671645927
Description: Very Good soft cover. 12mo, soft covers, 400pp. edgewear, corners curled, cover. owner info front end page. top corners bumped, clean and tight text. business. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1st printing? , 1986
ISBN-13:9780689117572ISBN:0689117574
Description: Very Good-/Very Good hard cover. 8vo, boards, 400pp. edgewear, wrinkles, scratches, dust jacket. bit of spine cock. clean and tight text with slight ripple top margins. business. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780689117572ISBN:0689117574
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0-689-11757-4. 400 pp. Spine bumped. Jacket has edgewear, small tear at top edge of front cover. An account of the people and events behind the battle between the phone company, the emerging MCI, the justice department, congress, and presidential administrations from 1972 to the consent decree in January 1982.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Description: VG+ Used, Like New in VG+ jacket. HARDCOVER, VG+/VG+, Atheneum Books, 1986, 1st, 29.9 oz. This copy has very mininmal signs of use, appears to have been very lightly read, is in Excellent Condition Overall. read more
Edition: First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books, New York
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780689117572ISBN:0689117574
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. xiv, 400 p. Illustrations. Notes and Sources. Index. The true story behind the headline-making event of AT&T's breakup that assesses the long-range implication of divestiture for consumers and for the future of telephone services. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
"AT&T was an incredible machine and was totally lost when the government forced it to break up. A bit dry in terms of writing, but content was good to know"
"Very readable account of how the world's largest and most powerful corporation was split up (against the will of the populace and the majority of the government, including the president) by a comparatively small group of Justice department lawyers and politically connected competitors. Washington Post reporter Steve Coll's story is naturally strongest when covering the D.C.-based government story and a bit weaker when discussing the Bell System business issues. I found it a fascinating primer on how competition emerged in the telecom industry, but then again I'm a bit of a nerd for that sort of stuff."
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