"Empire of the Air" - Tom Lewis (1991, Harper Collins) - How RCA media magnate David Sarnoff , along with inventors Lee DeForest and E. Howard Armstrong, turned radio into an industry and turned against each other
"The Forgotten Network (DuMont and the Birth of American Television)" - David Weinstein (2004, Temple University Press) - Before Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and Ernie Kovacs became household names, they got their start on this short-lived network in the 1950's