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Ben Mezrich

Biography

Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich is the New York Times bestselling author of THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES (adapted by Aaron Sorkin into the David Fincher film The Social Network), BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE (adapted into the #1 box office hit film 21), THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK, and many other bestselling books. His books have sold over six million copies worldwide.

Books by Ben Mezrich

by Ben Mezrich - Business, Economics, Nonfiction

BREAKING TWITTER takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time --- Elon Musk --- and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the mission-driven team Musk surrounded himself with, this is the full story from all sides. Can Musk miraculously succeed, or will he spectacularly fail? What will that mean to the global town hall that is Twitter? What, really, is his end goal?

by Ben Mezrich - Biography, Nonfiction

Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller, THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, is the definitive account of Facebook's founding and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film The Social Network. Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers and foils to Mark Zuckerberg. BITCOIN BILLIONAIRES is the story of the brothers’ redemption and revenge in the wake of their epic legal battle with Facebook.

by Ben Mezrich - History, Nonfiction, Politics

ONCE UPON A TIME IN RUSSIA is the untold true story of the larger-than-life billionaire oligarchs who surfed the waves of privatization to reap riches after the fall of the Soviet regime: “Godfather of the Kremlin” Boris Berezovsky, a former mathematician whose first entrepreneurial venture was running an automobile reselling business, and Roman Abramovich, his dashing young protégé who built a multi-billion-dollar empire of oil and aluminum.