An astonishing-and astonishingly entertaining-behind-the-curtain history of Hollywood’s transformation within the last five years as seen through the agency in the centre of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.

In 1975, five youthful employees of a sclerotic William Morris agency remaining to start their own, strikingly innovative talent agency. In the a long time, Creative Artists Agency would vault from its roots in a little office on the about Powerhouse: The Untold Tale of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Company last block of Beverly Hills to become the largest, most imperial, groundbreaking, and star-studded agency Hollywood provides ever seen-a business whose tentacles right now spread throughout the world of films, music, tv, technology, advertising, sports, and investment banking a lot more than previously dreamed.

Powerhouse may be the fascinating, no-holds-barred saga of this hot-blooded ascent. Drawing on unprecedented and exclusive access to the women and men who constructed and battled CAA, as well as financial information never before made public, acclaimed author Wayne Andrew Miller spins an account of boundless ambition, ruthless egomania, ceaseless empire building, medicines, sex, greed, and personal betrayal. Powerhouse is also a tale of prophetic brilliance, magnificent artistry, singular genius, entrepreneurial courage, proper daring, foxhole brotherhood, and how one firm utterly changed the entertainment business. Listed below are the real Superstar Wars-complete with a Death Star-told through the voices of these who were in fact there. Filled with scores of celebrities from movies, tv, music, and sports, and a enormously compelling ensemble of agents, studio professionals, network chiefs, group commissioners, hedge finance managers, technology CEOs, and mass media tycoons, Powerhouse is usually itself a Hollywood blockbuster of the very most spectacular sort.