‘Lachlan Murdoch is a Hamlet figure’: Michael Wolff unpicks the real-life succession drama

The author has returned to the Murdoch empire for his latest book, after a bestselling trilogy on Trump. He discusses power, politics, the media and why a person can be a moron and a geniusImmediately before Michael Wolff published The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire, the emperor himself, driver of its expansion and its bitter divisions, stepped aside. Last week, Rupert Murdoch announced he was anointing his eldest son, Lachlan, as his successor, which per Wolff’s narrative will have been a bitter blow to everyone, including Lachlan.Wolff’s latest book joins an oeuvre that is remarkable for its access: in 2008, he wrote a biography of Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, for which the mogul gave him 50 hours of interviews. Never mind that it’s the longest Murdoch has ever spoken to a journalist, it’s probably the longest he’s ever spoken to a friend. “We really got along. He’s inexhaustible on the subject of the media, and I, too, am inexhaustible on that subject. We had a very good time,” says Wolff. So long as they were doing business or gossip, that is. “He’s very hard to talk to personally; he can’t reflect on his own past and his own experience. He can talk about his family; he was weirdly transparent about his children. But about himself, what he might be feeling, no.” Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2023-09-27 09:00:54 UTC ]
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[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-18 15:49:40 UTC ]
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[ Folio Magazine | 2019-10-17 21:22:45 UTC ]
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Taylor sizes up Chapman's Another Life

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[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 20:34:51 UTC ]
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Hutchinson snaps up Tucker's 'exceptional debut novel' in six-figure deal

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