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Before Rupert : Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty / Tom D. C. Roberts.
- Title
- Before Rupert : Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty / Tom D. C. Roberts.
- Author
- Roberts, Tom (Media historian)
- Publication
- St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- xx, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Following the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch said his greatest regret was that he had let his father down. Popular history views Sir Keith Murdoch (1885 - 1952) as a fearless war correspondent - author of the famous letter that led to the evacuation of the Anzac force from Gallipoli - and as a principled journalist and dedicated family man who, on hhis death, left a single provincial newspaper to Rupert. This benign reputation is unsurprising: the two previously published biographies of Keith were Murdoch family commissions. But is there another side to the story of Keith's success and the origins of News Corporation? Before Rupert is an unflinching prequel to the saga of the Murdoch family's rise to power. historian Tom Roberts draws on an unparalleled range of interviews, correspondence and srchival sources to trace the genesis of the family's involvement with the news and entertainment industry and their resulting influence. This book explores how Keith ruthlessly exploited his networks to gain ultimate control over Australia's media and political landscapes. With controversial revelations, this book shows how, by Rupert's birth, a pattern for the cut-throat exercise of power through an expanding media chain had been set - a course that is still followed to this day." --Back cover
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages353-358) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A different path -- Finding his voice -- Sacred myths -- Hearts and minds, and bodies -- A romance into air -- The prince and the pressman -- Lessons from a madman -- Healthy competition -- Kingmaker -- A media empire -- A girdle round about the earth -- Murdoch's young man -- After Keith.
- ISBN
- 9780702253782
- 0702253782
- 0702255734 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780702255731 (canceled/invalid)
- 0702255742 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780702255748 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780702255724 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 911178241
- SCSB-11071115
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library