Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business

Mark Robichaux's Cable Cowboy is ostensibly a profile of the legendary cable magnate John C. Malone. But its richest sections detail how tax avoidance strategies work, how quasi-monopolists maintain power, why incentives matter ("A guy who rises to the top of a big corporation and owns none of it is much more interested in control than he is in economics"), and how successful dealmakers have an innate instinct for how to create value.