Introduction 3(12)
PART I The Rise
15(84)
1 The Disruptive Founder
17(16)
2 Radio Dreams
33(12)
3 Mr. Vail Is a Big Man
45(16)
4 The Time Is Not Ripe for Feature Films
61(13)
5 Centralize All Radio Activities
74(12)
6 The Paramount Ideal
86(13)
PART II Beneath the All-Seeing Eye
99(58)
7 The Foreign Attachment
101(14)
8 The Legion of Decency
115(10)
9 FM Radio
125(11)
10 We Now Add Sight to Sound
136(21)
PART III The Rebels, the Challengers, and the Fall
157(48)
11 The Right Kind of Breakup
159(9)
12 The Radicalism of the Internet Revolution
168(8)
13 Nixon's Cable
176(11)
14 Broken Bell
187(9)
15 Esperanto for Machines
196(9)
PART IV Reborn Without a Soul
205(50)
16 Turner Does Television
207(10)
17 Mass Production of the Spirit
217(21)
18 The Return of AT&T
238(17)
PART V The Internet Against Everyone
255(66)
19 A Surprising Wreck
257(12)
20 Father and Son
269(30)
21 The Separations Principle
299(22)
Acknowledgments 321(2)
Notes 323(32)
Index 355