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    Call Me Ted
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    Call Me Ted

    Written by Bill Burke and Ted Turner

    Narrated by Ted Turner

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    About this audiobook

    "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!"

    These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner's remarkable life, but they only begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and unique style that has made Ted into one of the most amazing personalities of our time. Along the way - among his numerous accomplishments -- Ted became one of the richest men in the world, the largest land owner in the United States, revolutionized the television business with the creation of TBS and CNN, became a champion sailor and winner of the America's Cup, and took home a World Series championship trophy in 1995 as owner of the Atlanta Braves.
    An innovative entrepreneur, outspoken nonconformist, and groundbreaking philanthropist, Ted Turner is truly a living legend, and now, for the first time, he reveals his personal story. From his difficult childhood to the successful launch of his media empire to the catastrophic AOL/Time Warner deal, Turner spares no details or feelings and takes the reader along on a wild and sometimes bumpy ride.
    You'll also hear Ted's personal take on how we can save the world...share his experiences in the dugout on the day when he appointed himself as manager of the Atlanta Braves....learn how he almost lost his life in the 1979 Fastnet sailing race (but came out the winner)...and discover surprising details about his dealings with Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, and many more of the most influential people of the past half century.
    Ted also doesn't shrink from the darker and more intimate details of his life. With his usual frankness, he discusses a childhood of loneliness (he was left at a boarding school by his parents at the tender age of four), and the emotional impact of devastating losses (Ted's beloved sister died at seventeen and his hard-charging father committed suicide when Ted was still in his early twenties). Turner is also forthcoming about his marriages, including the one to Oscar-winning actress, Jane Fonda.
    Along the way, Ted's friends, colleagues, and family are equally revealing in their unique "Ted Stories" which are peppered throughout the book. Jane Fonda, especially, provides intriguing insights into Ted's inner drive and character.
    In this audio edition CALL ME TED, you'll hear Ted Turner's distinctive voice as he tells his story. Always forthright, he tells you what makes him tick and what ticks him off, and delivers an honest account of what he's all about. Inspiring and entertaining, CALL ME TED sheds new light on one of the greatest visionaries of our time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateNov 10, 2008
    ISBN9781600244230
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    Call Me Ted
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    Bill Burke

    Bill Burke is a Fellow at the JBoss division of REd Hat Inc. A long time JBoss contributor and architect, his current project is RESTEasy, RESTful Web Services for Java.

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    • 5/5
      Great book as an audio version! Very insightful, eye opening and entertaining.
    • 2/5
      I finished this book feeling very sorry for Ted's various wives and children. He is obviously brilliant in business and magnanimous in his support of charities, but clearly selfish and egotistical. His personal relationships are substantially down the list in his priorities. I had the feeling that some days in the midst of a "deal", he may have had trouble remembering a child's name. Left me a little cold, I'm afraid.
    • 5/5
      Call Me Ted by Ted Turner and Bill Burke on audio is an adventurous ride through Ted Turner's life from his childhood to his "retirement." This audio, which is 13 disks long, is read by the man himself. His southern accent and his passionate reading of this autobiography will make readers feel at home by his hearth as he recounts the biggest and smallest events in his life.Not only is the audio read by Ted, but there are a number of side stories told by family members, an ex-wife, business colleagues, and others. From an early age Ted was shipped away from the family and his "abusive" father to military boarding schools where he learned self-reliance, discipline, and dedication.In college, which he did not finish, he was known as two-beer Turner. He spent a great deal of time away from his own family and sailed in a variety of competitions. Turner is an exceptional, passionate, and accomplished man who is far from finished.Some of the best stories in the book center on his creation of CNN--a 24-hour news channel on cable--which the broadcast stations, like CBS, NBC, and ABC, considered "chicken noodle news." Creating the Turner company, transforming it from a billboard selling firm to a cable giant, he spent more than two decades on the couch in his office.Some of his proudest moments, however, have been in philanthropy and diplomacy during the Cold War and since. From the Goodwill Games, which never earned much revenue, to his work with the United Nations, Turner continued to inspire others to be better than themselves to make the world a better place. He continues this work today.The best surprise of this audiobook is the final question-and-answer session with Turner, where he says CNN should remain dedicated to impartial news broadcasting and end its emphasis on opinion--like that of the Lou Dobbs show. Turner also notes that alternative energy is needed today, not tomorrow; population growth must be stabilized; land must be conserved; and nuclear weapons must be eliminated around the globe. Turner says he is eager to write a sequel and have Tom Hanks play him in a movie about his life.If readers love autobiographies, Call Me Ted is one that will knock their cowboy boots off. Turner is witty, strong-willed, opinionated, and a no-nonsense kind of guy with a lot to offer entrepreneurs and others in the business world, as well as those simply in need of a boost.
    • 4/5
      This is exactly what you want from a good memoir: the book gives you insights into Turner’s life, his perceptions of what happened at various points in his career, and the writing is as unique, direct and as colorful as Turner’s public image. He discusses his own upbringing, such as being sent to a boarding school at age four, with a casual acceptance that says a lot about how he has been able to achieve what he has, as well as the personal costs. It is then no surprise that military culture, military schools, and strict discipline from his father jump out as the main influences. The path of Turner’s business success, from billboards to yachting to local television to baseball to cable to CNN and beyond, is an entertaining story of a driven man that is told with Turner acknowledging the balance of hard word, good luck and risk taking that got him there. The book addresses Turner’s slow shift from military strong conservative to liberal environmentalist, and while it would have been nice to have more of the story, it is telling that Ted credits meeting people from around the world as recognizing a shared humanity that spurred the change in him. These same experiences led to Turner’s work in preserving the environment, reclaiming lands in the American west, and his interest in saving the bison.The book has personal anecdotes. It discusses Ted’s concern while raising his children that they not become like so many other children of wealthy parents. Ted also discusses his marriages, and takes responsibility, but it is not a confessional or demonstrative tell-all. All in all I have more respect for Ted Turner and his accomplishments than before I read the book; his public persona and current political associations caused me to make judgments that the book put into better perspective.
    • 1/5
      If I could have rated this book with a half star, I would have. Four hundred fourteen pages of nauseating I-am-soooooo-great drivel; 6 pages from the end, I just had to clench my teeth and tell myself I could do it. Sorry, Ted, but from all you told me about yourself, I doubt if anyone else would use the word "great" to describe you.