Ted Turner has died, at 87. Much like our current president, Turner was one of those classic American characters, a tycoon who was larger than life and not easily constrained by rules or conventions. Cable news, baseball, movies, yachting, world peace, Jane Fonda — his enthusiasms and ideas crisscrossed the landscape of America between the 1970s and the 2000s. He was a textbook example of the guy who walks into every meeting with 19 insane ideas and one stroke of genius, and his ups and downs........

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