[Web4lib] Facebook: The Book and The Movie ...

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

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/Gerry 

 

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex,
Money, Genius and Betrayal / Ben Mezrich

 

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages / On Sale: July 14, 2009 /Price: $25.00 /
ISBN: 978-0-385-52937-2 (0-385-52937-6)

 

ABOUT THIS BOOK

 

The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to
increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating
Facebook.Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates
and best friends-outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school
grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in
math and a geeky awkwardness with women.Eduardo figured their ticket to
social acceptance-and sexual success-was getting invited to join one of
the university's Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that
had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked
on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. 

 

[snip]

 

In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was
born.What followed-a real-life adventure filled with slick venture
capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin
Olympic rowers-makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling
books of the year. Before long, Eduardo's and Mark's different ideas
about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon
spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked
their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. 

 

[snip]

 

The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people
together, its very success tore two best friends apart.The Accidental
Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lost-and of
the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way
hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.

 

See Also 

 

Facebook: The Movie / Forbes/com / Taylor Buley 

 

Forbes has obtained Aaron Sorkin's screenplay about the founding of the
social network.

 

BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook has become a major
player on the glowing screen. Next stop? The big screen.

 

Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin are said to have contracted with
Aaron Sorkin--writer of movies such as A Few Good Men and Charlie
Wilson's War and for the television series West Wing and Sports
Night--to write a script about the genesis of Facebook. Sorkin's script,
dated May 28 and obtained by Forbes, is titled The Social Network. 

 

AND

 

"I'm Ready For My Close Up ...": Facebook - The Movie.

 

Enjoy !

 

All Available At 

 

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/Gerry 

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

gerrymck at iastate.edu  

 

There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying

 

The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed /
Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace'