Good morning.
Jim Stewart is the author of two of the best business narratives ever written—Den of Thieves and Disney War—so I have eagerly awaited his new book, Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy. It came out last week, and I used the long weekend to dive in.
It doesn’t disappoint. The book is a page-turner—an over-the-top tale of money, power, sex, and relentless scheming to wrest billions away from an old man who in his final years seems to have lost the capacity for just about anything except sex. It is literally made for television. Stewart and his coauthor, Rachel Abrams, helpfully divide it into four “Seasons” and 33 “Episodes,” just in case the Netflix producers miss the point.
