A media mogul's toxic legacy

We see in precise detail the misogyny of Redstone's lust as he decides that his wealth and professed love for these women give him something like the rights of a king

UNSCRIPTED: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

Author: James B Stewart & Rachel Abrams
Publisher: Penguin Press

Pages: 398

Price: $32
 

This book is a model of how gracefully to tell the most grotesque of stories: That of the final years of Sumner Redstone. A self-made business titan, the founder of Paramount Global, whose holdings included Viacom and CBS, Redstone spent his 90s obsessively manipulating the people around him as they sought to manipulate him. The authors, The New York Times journalists James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams, allow us to observe him from an almost uncomfortably