Walter Isaacson
“Robichaux has provided a smart assessment of the cable industry through the wild narrative of John Malone… and turned it into a tale that manages to be both colorful and informative.”
— Walter Isaacson
President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, former chairman of CNN, and author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Ken Auletta
“With skill and precision, author Mark Robichaux paints a portrait of a man who is both fox and lamb, cunningly ruthless and surprisingly genuine. We get to watch a man who plays chess against opponents who merely play checkers. And we get a really good read.”
— Ken Auletta
Author of Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire and Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way
Bryan Burrough
"Cable Cowboy is a first-rate work by a first-rate reporter—excellent, original research on a topic that deserves it."
— Bryan Burrough
Co-Author of Barbarians at the Gate
Tom King
“John Malone’s remarkable climb [is] a tale worthy of a great cinematic Western. For the first time, we get a sharp picture of the man behind the mogul, an unflinching portrait of one of the business world’s sharpest deal-makers. I dare you to put it down.”
— Tom King
Author of Operator: David Geffen Builds Buys and Sells the new Hollywood
David Von Drehle
“A terrific saga of American enterprise—how lonely wires on windswept hillsides were stretched and spun into the Information Superhighway—as seen through the remarkable career of cable television's greatest entrepreneur.”
— David Von Drehle
Author of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America