Good Spirits: The Making of a Businessman

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Summary: Strange but maybe true
Review: This is a strange but informative book. Seagram and Universal's problems in Hollywood are well known but you would think everything is sweetness and light from reading this book. For instance praise is heaped upon the skills of Universal ceo Frank Biondi now departed and blamed (rightly) for many of the problems. That casts problems of the credibility of the rest of the book. In it Edgar Bronfman is portrayed as a good common sense businessman who has done wonders for Seagram. This is probably true but had he been a little more honest about the Universal problems then the rest of the book would have stood up a lot better. Well worth reading however for the insider insights it contains.