Barefaced Cheek by Michael Leapman

Barefaced Cheek

The apotheosis of Rupert Murdoch

by Michael Leapman

Hodder & Stoughton, 1983 [First Edition], ISBN 0340282118, black and white photographic plates, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, no inscriptions, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, sunning and minor chips (see photographs)

"Murdoch had long felt himself misunderstood in Britain, where he was known chiefly as a purveyor of titillation to the masses in the Sun and the news to the World.  Few knew that he sprang from a respected newspaper family.  His father Sir Keith Murdoch controlled Australia's largest press empire and had high expectations of his only son.  He died in 1952 leaving only a small newspaper in Adelaide to Rupert, who had built from it a group operating in Australia, Britain and the United States.  To add The Times to it would be the supreme tribute to his father's memory."