"Gelding Goliath: An Insider's Account of the Destruction of AT&T" AT&T, once the most powerful company in the world, died in 2005. Another company bought what was left of it and now uses its name. The series of "colossal failures" by internal managers as well as the inane government policies that contributed to the collapse are collected for the first time in this personal journey through corporate hell by a former high-ranking AT&T attorney.