"One Man's Trash": Building a Garbage Kingdom.
Garbage into Gold: The Early Waste Management Years.
Waste Management: Regulatory Woes and Industry Triumphs.
Wayne's Companies After Waste Management: Toilets, Lawns, Bugs,and
Water.
Video Venture: Taking Charge of Blockbuster.
Fast Forward: Building the Blockbuster Management Team.
Deal du Jour: Blockbuster Swallows Up the Competition.
Don't Hit Pause: Blockbuster in Turbulence.
Sports Inc.: Stadium Seats and a Baseball Team.
Sports Tycoon: Hockey, Football, and a Game Plan.
Viacom: The Deal from Hell.
After Blockbuster: What's Next.
Author's Notes.
Personal Interviews.
Sources.
Index.
GAIL DeGEORGE is the Miami bureau manager for BusinessWeek. She has covered a broad range of business topics and has written about H. Wayne Huizenga and Blockbuster Entertainment Corp. since 1990.
DeGeorge, the Miami bureau manager for BusinessWeek, has written an entertaining, sometimes sympathetic account of the rise of H. Wayne Huizenga. Covering his entire life and background from the arrival of his grandfather from the Netherlands to Chicago in 1893 to the present, the author documents a strong entrepreneurial streak that led the family to the refuse collecting business. Huizenga took two businesses public‘first Waste Management and then Blockbuster‘and emerged hugely successful. His merger with Viacom was designed with shareholders' best interests in mind. His art of dealmaking is legendary, his formula simple: Choose the business carefully, get to know it thoroughly, then expand, expand, expand. DeGeorge has provided a readable portrait of one of the foremost entrepreneurs of our time, comparing Huizenga's rise to the rise of the United States over the same period. Although the absence of an index is a drawback, DeGeorge's book is recommended for public and academic collections.‘Littleton M. Maxwell, Business Information Ctr., Univ. of Richmond, Va.
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