Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.
Prologue: "Bootylicious" -- The Other Side of the Tracks -- Access to Power -- "White Man, Can You Spare Half a Million?" -- Reverend Eldorado -- Country Boy Charm, Predator's Heart -- The Family -- "BET in the House" -- Shakin' It ... Smackin' It -- "Tired Ol' Reruns" -- Wealth and Power -- The Black Disney -- Costly Affairs -- "Sellout!" -- He Got Game -- Epilogue: One Nation Under a Groove.
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The first-ever in-depth look at one of the greatest business stories of our time. A true heavyweight in the star-studded world of media entertainment, Robert Johnson, the creator of Black Entertainment Television (BET), turned a revolutionary idea and a 15,000 personal loan into a multibillion-dollar empire. As one of the richest black men in America as well as its first black billionaire, Johnson's success with BET has been a social examination into both race and capitalism with his many detractors holding him to a higher standard of cultural responsibility from which his competitors are exempt.