EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and producer Amy Pascal have emerged victorious in a spirited book-rights auction for How to Rule the World: Yacht Parties, Culture Wars and the Downfall of a President at Stanford.
Written by Theo Baker, book tells his story of being an 18-year-old freshman at Stanford who wrote a series of reports for the university’s newspaper skeptical of the questionable research practices of the school’s president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist who was on the short list for the Nobel Prize.
The college president responded by hiring a top law firm and big PR firm to take down the neophyte journalist, who wrote the pieces for The Stanford Daily.
Baker wound up being named the youngest-ever recipient of a Polk Award, and in late summer the Stanford president and neuroscientist resigned — though he remains a member of the faculty.
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