How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour news channels and constantly breaking news? Four decades ago, in the basement of an abandoned country club in Atlanta, Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable television visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion newbies founded CNN. Mixing media history, a business adventure story, and quirky characters, Lisa Napoli—a CNN intern back in the early days—takes an entertaining inside look at the founding of the upstart network that set out to change the way news was delivered and consumed, an innovation which succeeded beyond even the wildest imaginings of its charismatic and uncontrollable founder.