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100 1  Holiday, Ryan,|eauthor. 
245 10 Conspiracy :|bPeter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the 
       anatomy of intrigue /|cRyan Holiday. 
264  1 New York, New York :|bPortfolio/Penguin,|c[2018] 
300    viii, 319 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318). 
520    In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley
       -vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and 
       billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality
       had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't 
       consider himself a public figure, and believed the 
       information was private. This post would be the casus 
       belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end
       nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment 
       against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, 
       Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Only later would 
       the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental--
       it had been masterminded by Thiel.  For years, Thiel had 
       searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to 
       call the "Gawker Problem." When an unmarked envelope 
       delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his
       best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for 
       millions of pageviews and to say the things that others 
       were afraid to say. Thiel saw their publication of the 
       tape as the opportunity he was looking for. He would come 
       to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war 
       through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained 
       confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over 
       so many other lawsuit--until it was too late. The verdict 
       would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate 
       unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had
       he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would 
       this mean--for the First Amendment? For privacy? For 
       culture? In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly 
       unbelievable conspiracy, informed by interviews with all 
       the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how
       one billionaire took down a media empire or the current 
       state of the free press. It's a study in power, strategy, 
       and one of the most wildly ambitious--and successful--
       secret plots in recent memory. --|cAmazon description. 
600 10 Thiel, Peter,|d1967- 
610 20 Gawker Media. 
650  0 Conspiracy|zUnited States. 
650  0 Vendetta|zUnited States. 
650  0 Revenge|zUnited States.