Andrew Roberts

Gebundenes Buch

The Chief

The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron

Beschreibung

The official biography of Lord Northcliffe, the founding father of the Daily Mail and the modern British press

Autor

Professor Andrew Roberts, who was born in 1963, took a first class honours degree in Modern History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, from where he is an honorary senior scholar and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). He is presently the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Visiting Professor at the War Studies Department at King's College, London. He has written or edited 19 books, which have been translated into 23 languages, and appears regularly on radio and television around the world. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 166mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9781398508699
• ISBN-10: 1398508691
• Artikelnr.: 62227686

Rezensionen

'Roberts does a superb job of bringing [Northcliffe's story] alive... His pages fizz with character and colour...but at their heart is Northcliffe himself: charismatic, swashbuckling, admirable and appalling. His book is littered with affairs, tantrums and tirades, all of which add considerably to its attractions... Some of the most memorable scenes come in the early 1920s, as Northcliffe succumbs to all-out megalomania.' Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times