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HBO and the TV revolution Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers
Author: James Andrew Miller
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Price: $50
Pages: 995
There’s enough animosity, jealousy, score-settling and killing gossip in Tinderbox, James Andrew Miller’s mountainous new oral history of HBO, to fill an Elizabethan drama. Yet the book’s tone is largely fond.
The people who created HBO made something they’re proud of. They’re glad to have been there, to have had a piece of it, in the early, freewheeling decades. Most know they’ll never have it so good again.
HBO went live on November 8, 1972, broadcasting to a few hundred houses in
