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Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire

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“From schoolboy socialist to boy publisher to mogul on the make: Young Rupert offers a revelatory glimpse of Murdoch becoming Murdoch."―Jeff Sparrow, author of No Way But This: in search of Paul RobesonFor half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarizing patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start?In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputation, the young and brash son of Sir Keith Murdoch had arrived to fulfill his father’s dying wish: for Rupert to live a “useful altruistic and full life” in the media.For decades, Sir Keith had been a giant of the Australian press, but his final years were spent bitterly fending off rivals and would-be successors. When the dust settled on his father’s estate, Rupert was left with the Adelaide-based News Ltd and its afternoon paper The News―a minor player in a small, parochial city.But even this inheritance was soon under siege, as the left-wing “Boy Publisher” stared down his father’s old colleagues at the city’s paper of record, The Advertiser, and a conservative establishment kept in power by a decades-old gerrymander.Led by Rupert’s friend, ally, and editor-in-chief Rohan Rivett, the fledgling Murdoch press began a seven-year campaign of circulation wars, expansion, and courtroom battles that divided the city and would lay the foundations for a global empire―if Rupert and Rohan didn’t end up in custody first.Drawing on unpublished archival material and new reportage, Young Rupert pieces together a paper trail of succession, sedition, and power―and a fascinating time capsule of Australian media on the cusp of an extraordinary ascension. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribe US


Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 2, 2024


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1957363517


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 16


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #3,091,396 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #424 in Book Publishing Industry #766 in Media & Communications Industry (Books) #2,853 in Television Performer Biographies


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