Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood.

Washington Monthly | September 1, 1996| | Copyright

The non-book book is not a new phenomenon in publishing, but it has become more commonplace. Bob Woodward, among the best reporters on the planet, exploits the genre in The Choice, a rushed account of this year's presidential contest. It ends before either party has an official nominee and before the voters have spoken, but nevertheless clamors in June to tell us the dozen or so vice-presidential names on Bob Dole's mind in May.

A non-book differs from a book in several respects. It feels padded, reading more like a newspaper or magazine story in which a lack of ...

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