Ted Sturtz

http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com

Ted Sturtz established New York Journal of Books, LLC, during an extended break from a long career in finance. As an investment banker, Ted covered media companies, including publishers, for ten years. He ghost-authored a business-category book released in the fall of 2009 that received numerous highly favorable reviews. Ted majored in fiction writing as an undergraduate at Brown University.

Book Reviews by Ted Sturtz

Image of Bloodsport: When Ruthless Dealmakers, Shrewd Ideologues, and Brawling Lawyers Toppled the Corporate Establishment

Author(s):

Robert Teitelman

Genre(s):

Biography, Business & Management Profiles/Histories, Capital Markets, Company Histories, Management & Leadership

Bloodsport: When Ruthless Dealmakers, Shrewd Ideologues, and Brawling Lawyers Toppled the Corporate Establishment

May 16, 2016

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

"there is fact-driven brilliance in Bloodsport’s pages."

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Image of Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After

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Genre(s):

Business, Investing & Economics

Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After

July 26, 2013

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

“. . . this quick read is chock full of complications.”

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Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye: How to Get Beyond the One Word That Stands Between You and Success

July 9, 2013

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

Are you perfect?

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Image of The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue

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Genre(s):

Internet & Social Networking, Internet & Social Networking, Internet & Social Networking, Internet & Social Networking

The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue [Revised Edition]

April 5, 2013

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

“. . . brimming with sage advice about how to use social media tools. In the end it most succeeds where many other books come up short: in fully communicating . . .”

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Image of The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time

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Genre(s):

Business, Investing & Economics, Business, Investing & Economics, Business, Investing & Economics, Business, Investing & Economics

The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time

October 29, 2012

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

For many, Twitter is the Seinfeld of social networking sites: the one about nothing.

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Image of Face2Face: Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections

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Genre(s):

e-Commerce, e-Commerce, e-Commerce, e-Commerce, e-Commerce

Face2Face: Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections

September 17, 2012

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

“Social networking newcomers: Munch on this book like you would a good snack.”

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Image of [(The Kickstarter Handbook: Real-life Success Stories of Artists, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs )] [Author: Don Steinberg] [Sep-2012]

Genre(s):

Business, Investing & Economics

The Kickstarter Handbook: Real-life Success Stories of Artists, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs )] [Author: Don Steinberg] [Sep-2012]

July 1, 2012

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

“The Kickstarter Handbook should be read by anyone contemplating a Kickstarter campaign.”

This review is something different.

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The Art of SEO by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin 2nd (second) Edition (2012)

May 27, 2012

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

“The Art of SEO is the Holy Grail of search engine optimization books.”

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The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

April 3, 2012

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

“Do not start a startup without this book.”

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Image of Click Millionaires: Work Less, Live More with an Internet Business You Love

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Genre(s):

Careers & Entrepreneurship, Careers & Entrepreneurship, Internet & Social Networking, Careers & Entrepreneurship, Internet & Social Networking, Internet & Social Networking, Careers & Entrepreneurship, Internet & Social Networking, Careers & Entrepreneurship, Internet & Social Networking, Careers & Entrepreneurship, Internet & Social Networking

Click Millionaires: Work Less, Live More with an Internet Business You Love

March 24, 2012

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

“Click Millionaires by Scott Fox has its virtues. The absence of naked self-promotion is not one of them.”

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Image of The Bootstrapper's Guide to the Mobile Web: Practical Plans to Get Your Business Mobile in Just a Few Days for Just a Few Bucks

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Genre(s):

Computing, Technology & the Internet, Internet & Social Networking, Internet & Social Networking, Computing, Technology & the Internet, Internet & Social Networking, Computing, Technology & the Internet, Computing, Technology & the Internet, Internet & Social Networking

The Bootstrapper's Guide to the Mobile Web: Practical Plans to Get Your Business Mobile in Just a Few Days for Just a Few Bucks

March 18, 2012

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

“...a practical guide served straight up, an indispensible toolbox crammed with no-nonsense methods and practices for getting your website mobile..”

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Image of Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies

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Genre(s):

Internet, Internet & Social Networking, Industries

Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies

November 20, 2011

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

“Want to learn and implement SEO? Read this book. . . .

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Image of Drupal For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Author(s):

Lynn Beighley, Seamus Bellamy

Genre(s):

Professional, Personal

Drupal for Dummies

October 26, 2011

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

“For that tiny percentage of readers who build their own computers, shamelessly reduce tech support drones to puddles, and know just enough to be, well, dangerous, this may just be the book

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Image of This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes

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Genre(s):

Political & Social Science, Christianity, Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes

October 1, 2010

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

Rick Hodes grew up on Long Island. There was nothing in his background to suggest that he would become a doctor who devoted his life to some of the sickest and poorest souls on our planet.

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Image of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition

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Genre(s):

Business, Investing & Economics

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

October 1, 2010

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

Well over a year passed between the publication of Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money in hardcover and the paperback text reviewed here.

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Image of Fair Maiden

Genre(s):

Literary Fiction

A Fair Maiden

October 1, 2010

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

The prose of Joyce Carol Oates has long established her as a living national treasure.

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Image of Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves

Author(s):

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Genre(s):

Business, Investing & Economics

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves

October 1, 2010

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

Andrew Ross Sorkin has written what many consider the definitive book on both Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis.

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Image of On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System

Author(s):

Henry M. Paulson

Genre(s):

Economics, Politics, Political Economy

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System

October 1, 2010

Reviewed by:

Ted Sturtz

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail left a clear impression that Sorkin has to a great extent merely repeated the words of some of the government and business titans who played major role

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