Editor

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. ''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 which started 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 the story of what happened to him, and to a great newspaper, over the next decade. It is all here: the rows with prime ministers, the coverage of great events including the end of the Cold War, the fall of Thatcher, the rise of New Labour and Tony Blair, the Gulf War, and the tribulatoins of the Royal Family. Max Hastings describes his complex relationship with his proprietor, Conrad Black and offers an extraordinary perspective on the difficulties of dealing with lawyers and celebrities, statesmen and stars. Editor is above all the story of the excitement and exhilaration of almost ten years at the helm of one of the greatest newspapers in the world.

Auteur
Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Das Reich, The Korean War, The Battle for the Falklands, Vietnam, Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes for both journalism and his books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London, and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

Texte du rabat

Editor is the definitive inside story of newspapers from Max Hastings, one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians and former editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph.

Contenu
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