The Operator 
Subtitle: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Random House
Published: March 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780679457541
Subjects: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; United States; General; Economic Aspects Of Music; Motion Picture Industry; Motion picture producers and d; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Geffen, David,; Biography/Autobiography; Executives; Entertainment & Performing Arts; Specific Groups - Male Gay Studies; Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Geffen, David; Reading Group Guide; Motion picture producers and directors; Business; 1943-; Biography
First sentence: Amazingly, when the stock market crashed in 1929, Abraham Geffen did not scrap his vacation plans.