A family war that involved external and internal factors

I recently read War at the Wall Street Journal, by Sarah Ellison (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), a wonderful tale of modern family warfare. It’s an easy-to-read, gripping story about a very large family that couldn’t get its act together. Rupert Murdoch wanted to own Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones’ owners and executives didn’t want him to have control.

Most people read this as another Wall Street hostile takeover of a corporation. It occurred during a time of national financial crisis, coinciding with huge technology threats to Dow Jones’ future.

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