THE DEAL OF THE CENTURY The Breakup of AT&T By Steve Coll Atheneum. 400 pp. $18.95 THROUGHOUT MOST OF THIS CENTURY, it was the behemoth of American business: the largest corporation in the world, the purveyor of goods and services virtually no one could do without, and, for better or worse, a monopoly of mammoth dimensions. In its early
Poor Rupert Murdoch. For quite a while now, the Australian media tycoon has had something of a love-hate relationship with his competitors and critics. Murdoch, it seems, is just the kind of man they love to hate.