Editor A decade's strife with PMs, proprietors and royals while resurrecting The Daily Telegraph
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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
Including an introduction read by the author, Max Hastings.
'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, starting 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 such world-changing 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 tribulations 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.