A New York Times bestseller

An astonishingand astonishingly entertaininghistory of Hollywoods transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.

The movies you watch the TV shows you adore the concerts and sporting events you attendbehind the curtain of nearly all of these is an immensely powerful and secretive corporation known as Creative Artists Agency. Started?in 1975?when?five bright and brash employees of a creaky William Morris office left to?open?their own strikingly innovative talent agency?CAA?would?come?to?revolutionize the entertainment industry and?over the next several decades?its tentacles would spread aggressively throughout the worlds of movies television music advertising and investment banking.?

Powerhouse?is the fascinating no-holds-barred saga of that ascent. Drawing on unprecedented and exclusive access to the men and women who built and battled with CAA?? as well as financial information never before made public?? author James Andrew Miller spins a tale of boundless ambition?? ruthless egomania?? ceaseless e