Editor
A decade's strife with PMs, proprietors and royals while resurrecting The Daily Telegraph
$24.30
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2025
Summary
‘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 February 2002 Max Hastings retired from his position as a ‘Fleet Street’ editor. His is an enormously illustrious career, starting in 1985 when he was offered the Editorship of a national institution – the Daily Telegraph – in a surprise move by its owners.
This candid memoir tells…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035057344 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035057344 |
| Author: | Max Hastings |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Much excellent gossip, some of it wildly indiscreet … Hastings is a brilliant reporter * The Sunday Telegraph * The acuity of his insights make this book a wholly compelling read * The Observer * An important as well as an enjoyable book – Roy Hattersley * Daily Mail * To his credit, Hastings is very much his own man * The Sunday Times * A gripping book, unflinchingly honest * Literary Review * Required reading for anyone interested in newspapers * The Daily Telegraph * He has produced an outstanding example … of the Fleet Street memoir * The Spectator *
About The Author
Max Hastings
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. He has won many awards for his journalism and books, of which the most recent are Abyss, All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.
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