Max Hastings

Editor (eBook, ePUB)

A decade's strife with PMs, proprietors and royals while resurrecting The Daily Telegraph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Much excellent gossip, some of it wildly indiscreet . . . Hastings is a brilliant reporter' - Sunday Telegraph

'The acuity of his insights make this book a wholly compelling read' - Observer

In 1985 Max Hastings was offered the editorship of a nearly bankrupt national institution - the Daily Telegraph - in a surprise move by its owners. This candid and entertaining memoir tells the story of what happened next both to him and to the newspaper he revived. It is all here: the rows with prime ministers, the coverage world events, the daily office dramas.

Max describes his complex relationship with proprietor Conrad Black and offers an extraordinary perspective on the fall of Margaret Thatcher, decline of John Major and rise of Tony Blair. From the troubles of the Royal Family to the difficulties of dealing with lawyers, celebrities and statesmen, Editor is a compelling and vivid account of a turbulent ten years by the man with the inside scoop.

'I doubt any book captures so well the romance and thrill of running a great newspaper' - Nicholas Shakespeare, Evening Standard

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780330529150
• Artikelnr.: 39885945

Autorenporträt

Max Hastings is a Sunday Times bestselling author who, between 1986 and 2002, served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television and he has won many awards for his journalism and books. His books include Editor and Going to the Wars, covering his journalistic experiences, and Overlord, Das Reich, Bomber Command, Operation Biting, Abyss, All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Section
i: List of Illustrations Section
ii: Foreward Chapter
1: Wild Card Chapter
2: Baptism of Fire Chapter
3: Politics and Policy Chapter
4: Gleam of Light Chapter
5: Covering the World Chapter
6: Knight's Move Chapter
7: The Fall of Thatcher Chapter
8: Social Diversions Chapter
9: The Gulf War Chapter
10: Conrad Chapter
11: Alarums and Excursions Chapter
12: The Tory Eclipse Chapter
13: Royals and Reptiles Chapter
14: Battling with Murdoch Chapter
15: Going Section
iii: Afterword Index
iv: Index