Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency

The Hollywood Reporter — Voted #76 of The 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time

An astonishing—& astonishingly entertaining—history of Hollywood’s transformation over the past 5 decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.

The movies you watch, the TV shows you adore, the concerts & sporting events you attend—behind the curtain of nearly all of these is an immensely powerful & secretive corporation known as Creative Artists Agency. Started in 1975, when five bright & brash employees of a creaky William Morris office left to open their own, strikingly innovative talent agency, CAA would come to revolutionize the entertainment industry, & over the next several decades its tentacles would spread aggressively throughout the worlds of movies, television, music, advertising, & investment banking. 

Powerhouse is the fascinating, no-holds-barred saga of that ascent. Drawing on unprecedented & exclusive access to the men & women who built & battled with CAA, as well as financial information never before made public, author James Andrew Miller spins a tale of boundless ambition, ruthless egomania, ceaseless empire building, greed, & personal betrayal. It is also a story of prophetic brilliance, magnificent artistry, singular genius, entrepreneurial courage, strategic daring, foxhole brotherhood, & how one firm utterly transformed the entertainment business.

Here are the real Star Wars—complete with a Death Star—told through the voices of those who were there. Packed with scores of stars from movies, television, music, & sports, as well as a tremendously compelling cast of agents, studio executives, network chiefs, league commissioners, private equity partners, tech CEOs, & media tycoons, Powerhouse is itself a Hollywood blockbuster of the most spectacular