Wendy Goldman Rohm

The media on The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates:
"The history of Microsoft in the late eighties and nineties has not previously been exhibited in the form of a running expose..Rohm has gone to extraordinary lengths to make her case, interviewing hundreds of Microsoft insiders and enjoying access to many CEOs who did business with Bill Gates...With a massive amount of original research at her command, Rohm has created an unprecedented detailed account of the dark side of Gates' struggle for supremacy. Trial revelations have both substantiated and surpassed Rohm's reporting.It is a tarnished figure--perhaps a self-destructive figure--that Rohm holds up for our inspection, and it is a strikingly similar figure that the Justice Department is presenting in United States v. Microsoft." --The Nation

What the critics said about "The Murdoch Mission" :
"Wendy Goldman Rohm's exciting new book sheds light on one of the world's most powerful, yet enigmatic figures--Rupert Murdoch. Given unparalleled access to Murdoch and his sprawling media empire, Rohm has drawn a detailed portrait of the man who single-handedly created one of the largest media companies on the planet. It's an epic story not to be missed." --Eric Nee, Senior Writer, Fortune magazine

"Wendy Goldman Rohm's book serves up a readable snapshot of the business scalawag and entrepreneur... Rohm artfully demonstrates that although Murdoch operates as your basic economic imperialist, he bends over backward to respect local languages and customs. Her account of his dealings with an Israeli encryption genius and the Korean-founded Gemstar video programming dynasty are especially enlightening." -- The Detroit Free Press

"Presenting the man behind the media mogul, The Murdoch Mission aims to dispel much of the mythology about Rupert Murdoch. Author Wendy Goldman Rohm has been given rare access to the man himself, the Murdoch family dynasty, and the top executives who make up his inner sanctum. The Murdoch Mission gives an insight into the driving force behind Murdoch's global media ambitions for the new millenium and looks at his high-risk strategies in several world markets." --Eve Conway, BBC News

"Goldman Rohm is offering her insider knowledge to help you through the [writing] process through a special four-week intensive seminar that will culminate in a final book proposal to present to publishers."
Chicago Sun-Times, 10/21/02, on Rohm's Master's Tea Writing Workshop, which begins in Chicago in November (see worldwidewendy.org home page)

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Reviews and bestseller lists

NY Times Business Bestseller List
(The Microsoft File was number 14)

October 11, 1998

Best Sellers Plus


This
Month

Business Hard Cover Last Month

1 THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM, by Suze Orman. (Crown, $23.) Ways to manage your money now and in the future. (+)

2 THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR, by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. (Longstreet Press, $22.) An analysis of the lives of wealthy Americans.
(+)

3 THE ROARING 2000s, by Harry S. Dent, Jr. (Simon &
Schuster, $25.) Building wealth during the upcoming boom.

4 EAT THE RICH, by P. J. O'Rourke. (Atlantic Monthly, $24.) The satirist explains popular economic theories

5 WINNING EVERY DAY, by Lou Holtz. (HarperBusiness, $25.) Success strategies from the football coach of Notre Dame who is also a motivational speaker to corporate executives.

6 TITAN: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by Ron
Cherow. (Random House, $30.) A large scale narrative portrait of the founding father.

7 ELECTRONIC DAY TRADER, by Marc Friedfertig and George West. (McGraw Hill, $34.95.) Strategies for
on line market trading.

8 THE MILLENNIUM BUG: How to Survive in the Coming Chaos, by Michael S. Hyatt. (Regnery, $24.95.) The year 2000 computer crisis and how it affects global banking and other industries.


9 PHILISTINES AT THE HEDGEROW: Passion and Property in the Hamptons, by Steven Gaines. (Little, Brown, $26.95.) How eighties' Wall Street tycoons junk bond kings, financiers and corporate raiders came to
shape the social fabric and property values of this oceanfront enclave.

10 HOW TO THINK LIKE LEONARDO DA VINCI, by Michael J. Gelb. (Delacorte, $24.95.) An approach to learning and freeing the imagination, toward creating renaissance thinkers in any workplace.

11 WORK IN PROGRESS, by Michael Eisner with Tony Schwartz. (Random House, $27.95.) The business memoirs of the CEO of the Walt Disney Company.

Also Selling

12 DIE BROKE, by Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine. (Harper Business, $25.) A planner's advice to baby boomers: rethink your jobs, spending and retirement.

13 THE JOY OF WORK, by Scott Adams.
(HarperBusiness, $22.) A send up of popular corporate management guides.

14 THE MICROSOFT FILE: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates, by Wendy Goldman Rohm. (Times Business, Random House 25.95.) A detailed examination of ways in
which Microsoft has achieved a near monopoly in the high tech industry.

15 THE 48 LAWS OF POWER, by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers. (Viking, $24.95.) Three thousand years of writings about success and the strategies for keeping it.

16 THE BEST LITTLE BOY IN THE WORLD GROWS UP,
by Andrew Tobias. (Random House, $23.95.) Coming of middle age memoirs by the financial writer.

17 WINNING WITH INTEGRITY, by Leigh Steinberg with Michael D'Orso. (Villard, $24.95.) Principles of negotation.


Rankings are based on September figures of almost 4,000 bookstores and of wholesalers serving 50,000 hardcover retailers and 60,000 paperback
retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets). The numbers are statistically weighted to represent sales in all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk indicates that a book's sales are barely
distinguishable from those of the book above. (+) Some bookstores report receiving bulk orders on these titles.