The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

Book arrived very quickly. I worked on the Executive floor woth Murdoch 's Personal Assistant. We had a great time working in Fleet street. Looking forward to reading this book.

Satisfaisant

It took a lot less time than it should have, so I was very happy but, the book did have some dents in the paper wrap which really doesn't matter from me.... totally recommended.

I'm taken aback to see only one other five-star review here. I've read many of the books on Murdoch, most notably Shawcross' seminal Murdoch biography and, most recently, Dover's Rupert Murdoch's China Adventures: How the Worlds Most Powerful Media Mogul Lost a Fortune and Found a Wife. Frankly, Michael Wolff's tale is the best.He mixes three main themes with skill: the stalking and capturing of the Wall Street Journal; the high points of Murdoch's long and storied business career; and his famously dysfunctional family (though, as daughter Elisabeth points out, it was Murdoch himself who guaranteed dysfunction by blowing up his marriage to long-time spouse Anna in favor of Wendi Deng).Yes, you need to swallow here and realize that Wolff himself is part of the tale: the fact that Murdoch has opened up to him without constraint - and opened up access to all his children as well - injects Wolff into the story because of the sheer audacity of Wolff's gambit and the stone-cold acceptance by Murdoch of Wolff's terms. As a result, we get the fascinating spectacle of Wolff interviewing the four adult Murdoch children and having each of four use the sessions as a way to telegraph a message to their father. The author clearly revels in the role.Wolff writes with a clear zest for his subject and a love of good gossip and journalism. He takes the reader on a brilliant ride. Wolff also gives just and full credit right from the very start for the enormous contributions of his researcher, Leela de Kretser. Indeed, the first words from Wolff that one encounters open cracking the book are a page+ of prose on de Kretser's considerable role. Wolff generously and genuinely opines that "(t)his book rests as much on her shoulders as mine."Good show, Michael and Leela!

focused mainly on others in the subjects family I was more interested in a historical timeline of the subject