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Title: Call Me Ted [ILLUSTRATED]
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Author: Ted Turner
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• Posted on 2009-09-04
  This book will inspire you to be a better person
  
  Call Me Ted by Ted Turner, an audio book review.
  Success did not just fall out of the sky. Dedicated focused self-motivation and ballistic determination using defeats as a springboard to do his very best, Ted Turner's life of do-gooder projects has done more for world harmony than any other.
  If there was such a thing as a ten star rating this book would have to have it.
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-27
  TED
  
  "Early to Bed...Early to Rise, Work like Hell and Advertise" is a slogan I gave to Ted Turner that is featured on the dust cover of this book.
  Jim Karolik
  KAROLIK ADV
  Houston, TX
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-18
  Excellent book!
  
  It is obvious that Ted wrote this himself instead of a Ghost writer. It is excellent! I hihgly recommend you read this book!
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-15
  Call Me Crazy
  
  Nearly 14 years ago, I remember reading a book called "Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon. As much as I admire Ted Turner as a great businessman (his politics & environmental views are another story...), that book didn't excite me as much as I hoped.
  
  But this one, co-written by Turner himself along with Bill Burke is very exciting. Turner, a Southern boy like this reviewer talks about the loss of his beloved sister at a young age, then the suicide of his dad who formed Turner Advertising, a billboard company which he took over & evolved it into Turner Broadcasting System, which we all know as the owners of CNN, TNT, & Cartoon Network before selling it to Time Warner (& the latter's ill-fated merger with AOL) as well as his decision to leave & start a restaurant chain (Ted's Montana Grill)
  
  Besides business stuff, Turner talks about his passion for sailing (& his near death experience in the 1979 Fastnet Race) family life, including his marriage to former 1960s radical Jane Fonda. He also explains his infamous "Christ is for losers" quote which has to do with Fonda becoming a Christian without telling him than has views on the religion itself.
  
  After reading Turner's autobiography, I found him to be someone while I can disagree with his politics & some of his environmental views he seems to be a friendly guy who one can have coffee or go fishing with. I think most people who reads this book will feel the same way.
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-11
  Ted Turner's Chicken Noodle News Is Good for You
  
  Call Me Ted by Ted Turner and Bill Burke on audio is an adventurous ride through Ted Turner's life from his childhood to his "retirement." This audio, which is 13 disks long, is read by the man himself. His southern accent and his passionate reading of this autobiography will make readers feel at home by his hearth as he recounts the biggest and smallest events in his life.
  
  Not only is the audio read by Ted, but there are a number of side stories told by family members, an ex-wife, business colleagues, and others. From an early age Ted was shipped away from the family and his "abusive" father to military boarding schools where he learned self-reliance, discipline, and dedication.
  
  In college, which he did not finish, he was known as two-beer Turner. He spent a great deal of time away from his own family and sailed in a variety of competitions. Turner is an exceptional, passionate, and accomplished man who is far from finished.
  
  Some of the best stories in the book center on his creation of CNN--a 24-hour news channel on cable--which the broadcast stations, like CBS, NBC, and ABC, considered "chicken noodle news." Creating the Turner company, transforming it from a billboard selling firm to a cable giant, he spent more than two decades on the couch in his office.
  
  Some of his proudest moments, however, have been in philanthropy and diplomacy during the Cold War and since. From the Goodwill Games, which never earned much revenue, to his work with the United Nations, Turner continued to inspire others to be better than themselves to make the world a better place. He continues this work today.
  
  The best surprise of this audiobook is the final question-and-answer session with Turner, where he says CNN should remain dedicated to impartial news broadcasting and end its emphasis on opinion--like that of the Lou Dobbs show. Turner also notes that alternative energy is needed today, not tomorrow; population growth must be stabilized; land must be conserved; and nuclear weapons must be eliminated around the globe. Turner says he is eager to write a sequel and have Tom Hanks play him in a movie about his life.
  
  If readers love autobiographies, Call Me Ted is one that will knock their cowboy boots off. Turner is witty, strong-willed, opinionated, and a no-nonsense kind of guy with a lot to offer entrepreneurs and others in the business world, as well as those simply in need of a boost.
  
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