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Chargement... Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron (original 2020; édition 2021)par John Preston (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreFall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell par John Preston (2020)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Large to say the least and larger than life, this was a roller coaster story of Robert Maxwell. I didn't know much about him prior to this but was interested after his youngest daughter hit the news. What a life, what a liar, what a cheat, what a - you could go on with descriptives but somewhere in that mass he did have a heart and did do some good things but in the end his legacy was bilking employees out of their hard-earned pensions so save his own hide. What a story this was! It was intriguing and at the same time, horrific. A testimony to what power and money do to many people. Now I want to read his wife's book! Listening to this on Radio 4 Book of the Week slot. I was just pulling into Waitrose for the snowy click and collect when I caught the second episode which relates how he shot a German mayor in the head during the war as a punishment for German troops firing on his men after a surrender had been agreed. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: From the acclaimed author of A Very English Scandal, a thrilling and dramatic true-life account of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious media moguls of all time: Robert Maxwell. A tightly paced, addictive saga of ambition, hubris, narcissism, greed, power, and intrigue, Fall recounts Maxwell's rise and fall and rise and fall again. Preston weaves backwards and forwards in time to examine the forces that shaped Maxwell, including his childhood as a Jew in occupied Eastern Europe through his failed political ambitions in the 1960s which ended in accusations of financial double-dealing, and his resurrection as a media mogulâ??and on to the family legacy he left behind, including his daughter Ghislaine Maxwell. Preston chronicles Maxwell's all-encompassing rivalry with Rupert Murdochâ??a battle that ruined Maxwell financially, threatened his sanity and lead, indirectly, to his death. Did Maxwell have a heart attack and fall overboard? Was his death suicide? Or was he murderedâ??possibly by Mossad or the KGB? Few in the twentieth century journeyed as far from his roots as Robert Maxwell. Yet, as Fall reveals, no one, however rich and powerful, can entirely escape their p Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I had hoped to learn more about his Czech upbringing and time in the British Army but there's not that much here. Perhaps there is no more that can be known. I was interested in the story of Pergamon Press and found to my surprise that i had a couple of their books in my library. But mainly I came away from this feeling a bit sordid and a bit dirty. The book is reasonably sourced but feels as though it isn't and overall, didn't work for me ( )