cover image Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

Jerome Tuccille. Plume Books, $10.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-1-55611-224-9

``Interviewing employees, competitors, friends and Murdoch himself, but relying heavily on financial-press quotes, Tuccille quietly chronicles the dazzling career of a peripatetic family man who, in business, he shows, is taciturn, workaholic and a monumentally high-stakes gambler well ahead of the game so far,'' said PW. (Jan.)