Ugly Details in Selling Newspapers

Any look behind the curtain of Wall Street is not going to be pretty. But there is not pretty and then there is plain ugly. James O’Shea, the former editor in chief of The Los Angeles Times, found a classic of the genre in the course of reporting out “The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers,” his deep dive into the two deals that tipped over the companies that owned, among many other newspapers, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune.