Keith Murdoch : founder of a media empire / R.M. Younger
- Bib ID:
- 3050217
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Younger, R. M. (Ronald Michel), 1917-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, c2003
- 421 p., [32] p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0732270286
- Summary:
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Fifty years after Sir Keith Murdoch's death, his career and influence remain the measure of the man. Founder of the Murdoch media empire, Keith Murdoch came from humble beginnings as the son of a Scottish minister. He made a name for himself as a reporter on the withdrawal of troops from Gallipoli: journalist, editor, entrepreneur.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: PROLOGUE Echoes from the third floor I
- 1 Scottish ways 9
- 2 A quiet and sensitive boy 18
- 3 First steps to journalism 25
- 4 '...To be useful in the world' 30
- 5 Networking: parliamentary press gallery, 1910-15 48
- 6 Gallipoli 56
- 7 Success in London 75
- 8 The Northcliffe interlude 97
- 9 Recorder of changing times 112
- 10 With room to grow 128
- 11 Year of triumph 138
- 12 Riding the magic carpet 155
- 13 Marriage idyll 166
- 14 A political role in calamitous times 180
- 15 'Wake up,Australia!' 204
- 16 Newsprint 217
- 17 Art connoisseur 225
- 18 Wartime problems 238
- 19 A third-floor typewriter under siege 251
- 20 'Dependent on no one for favours' 284
- 21 'The highest possible plane' 306
- 22 An atmosphere of suspicion and intrigue 328
- 23 The legacy 349
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE 363
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 385
- APPENDIX 388
- ENDNOTES 393
- INDEX 407.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 393-406.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Murdoch, Keith Arthur Sir, 1885-1952
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2087 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2017
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2003
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