This book chronicles the saga of the much maligned merger between AOL and Time Warner.

Time Warner head Jerry Levin, who took most of the blame for the disastrous merger, was himself a study in what happens when leaders insulate themselves from feedback.

She is able to capture the personalities, hubris, technological hype, and all the other elements that went into one of the worst merger deals in history.

This merger is unusual, because it is the acquirer (AOL) that got weakened much more than the acquired (Time Warner).