Globe's Susan Krashinsky reviews new book on Murdoch

During the more than a century that it has spent as the hub of American financial journalism, The Wall Street Journal pioneered the kind of business story that goes behind the scenes and beyond the boardroom. The best of these stories delve into the most minute details – the crucial moment of a late-night phone call, an entente forged over a cup of coffee – to tell a vivid story of how deals are done.

War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire, Sarah Ellison's account of Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of Dow Jones and the paper he had coveted, is brimming with such details. She tells you what the players ate, what they wore (down to the colour of the pocket square), what they read, the colour of their hair, the number of a hotel room and the look of a family's furniture after it has been clawed by the cat.

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