Hamish McDonald
Auteur de The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Hamish McDonald
Mahabharata in Polyester: The Making of the World's Richest Brothers and Their Feud (2010) 6 exemplaires
Tokyo Fusion Plan Alarms Scientists (Article) 1 exemplaire
Demokrasi 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Professions
- journalist
foreign correspondent (India|1990-1997|Beijing|2002-2005) - Organisations
- Sydney Morning Herald (China correspondent|foreign editor)
The Age (China correspondent)
Far Eastern Economic Review (political editor)
Woodrow Wilson Centre (US think tank|fellowship|2014) - Prix et distinctions
- Walkley Award (newspaper feature writing|2005)
- Courte biographie
- Hamish McDonald (fl. 1990-2021) was China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age during the Sars epidemic in 2002-2003.
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 132
- Popularité
- #153,555
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 18
The rise of the Ambani moguls--the father and his two rival sons--is a fascinating story with humble roots, scandals, and corruption on the way to multi-dollar billionaire status. I bought this years ago in India after reading a newspaper interview with the mother, Kokila Dhirubhai Ambani, who recalled taking a buffalo cart from her village on the way to her arranged marriage and life in Yemen.
McDonald turns it into a grey slog, so I soon gave up. I can see from an Amazon review that this is allegedly an update of "The Polyester Prince," which was banned in India. Updated in the sense the problematical sections had been omitted. So perhaps that's at the root of the dullness, but I have my doubts. There must be much better bio or two out there. Recommendations welcome. Meanwhile, there are plenty of articles about the brothers Mukesh and Anil.
As for FEER and its crappy male writers (there were all male; it just worked out that way!). Their work became readable because the magazine, although finally owned by Dow Jones at the end, operated like a British publication--that is, a whole tier of "sub-editors" was responsible for grammar, spelling and, in cases like McDonald, basic organization and "color." Actually, there was probably another layer of editors on top of the sub-editors who went back and forth with the writer trying to pull out a coherent story. Without such a net, you get a snooze like this.… (plus d'informations)