Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street

Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street

by Ruth Dudley Edwards (Author)

Synopsis

Opposites in most respects, Hugh Cudlipp and Cecil Harmsworth King were the Barnum and Bailey of Fleet Street. Together they created the world's biggest publishing empire but their relationship foundered sensationally in 1968 when, as King tried to topple the Prime Minister, Cudlipp toppled King.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Secker
Published: 01 May 2003

ISBN 10: 0436199920
ISBN 13: 9780436199929
Book Overview: A portrait of the great days of journalism through two of its most fascinating characters.

Author Bio
Ruth Dudley Edwards is an historian, journalist and crime writer. Her non-fiction includes Victor Gollancz: A Biography (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize); her nine crime novels are satires on the British Establishment.