Editor A decade's strife with PMs, proprietors and royals while resurrecting The Daily Telegraph
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Biographical note
Max Hastings is a Sunday Times bestselling author who, between 1986 and 2002, served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television and he has won many awards for his journalism and books. His books include Editor and Going to the Wars, covering his journalistic experiences, and Overlord, Das Reich, Bomber Command, Operation Biting, Abyss, All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.Much excellent gossip, some of it wildly indiscreet . . . Hastings is a brilliant reporter
The Sunday Telegraph
The acuity of his insights make this book a wholly compelling read
The Observer
An important as well as an enjoyable book
- Roy Hattersley, Daily Mail
To his credit, Hastings is very much his own man
The Sunday Times
A gripping book, unflinchingly honest
Literary Review
Required reading for anyone interested in newspapers
The Daily Telegraph
He has produced an outstanding example . . . of the Fleet Street memoir
The Spectator
'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 1985 Max Hastings was offered the editorship of a nearly bankrupt national institution – the Daily Telegraph – in a surprise move by its owners. This candid and entertaining memoir tells the story of what happened next both to him and to the newspaper he revived. It is all here: the rows with prime ministers, the coverage world events, the daily office dramas.
Max describes his complex relationship with proprietor Conrad Black and offers an extraordinary perspective on the fall of Margaret Thatcher, decline of John Major and rise of Tony Blair. From the troubles of the Royal Family to the difficulties of dealing with lawyers, celebrities and statesmen, Editor is a compelling and vivid account of a turbulent ten years by the man with the inside scoop.
'I doubt any book captures so well the romance and thrill of running a great newspaper' – Nicholas Shakespeare, Evening Standard