Are there any good books written on the Atari Ray Kaspar fiasco?

For the record, it's Ray Kassar, not Ray Kaspar. I don't know if there are any entire books written about it, but Howard Warshaw covered it quite a bit in his book Once Upon Atari: How I made h…

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