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An A-Z history that's tremendously interesting and might even be an Important Social Document. EJ Thribb, `talking about Uganda', Dave Spart, Glenda Slag: the origins of all are explained, and the Eye's truly poisonous streak in the late 1970s owned up to. Not everyone on the staff is a hero. There's never a dull page. --Ian Jack, Guardian, September 24, 2011
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Many gems in this sumptuous coffee-table production, which is sure to be a Christmas bestseller. It's arranged as one huge index, an A-Z of Private Eye since the beginning, with articles on the first edition, its founders (Paul Foot, Ingrams, Christopher Booker and Willie Rushton), and the origins of just about every spoof byline and column for which the paper is famous. --Edwina Currie, Times, September 17, 2011
Excellent... What is the secret behind the institution described in this enjoyable if slightly self-congratulatory tribute as `Britain's first, most successful and indeed only fortnightly satirical magazine'? --Sunday Times, September 25, 2011
Private Eye: the First 50 Years, an A-Z -- so glossy that it dazzles the eye and packed with coloured pictures, unlike the magazine -- is different from the publications that are satirised as littering the "lounges" of suburbia. The beautifully written commentary, which holds the book together, contains less than complimentary stories about the men and women who made the magazine it celebrates. And the text dares to offend against even the most sacred of taboos. --Roy Hattersley, Times, September 13, 2011
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Many gems in this sumptuous coffee-table production, which is sure to be a Christmas bestseller. It's arranged as one huge index, an A-Z of Private Eye since the beginning, with articles on the first edition, its founders (Paul Foot, Ingrams, Christopher Booker and Willie Rushton), and the origins of just about every spoof byline and column for which the paper is famous. --Edwina Currie, Times, September 17, 2011
Excellent... What is the secret behind the institution described in this enjoyable if slightly self-congratulatory tribute as `Britain's first, most successful and indeed only fortnightly satirical magazine'? --Sunday Times, September 25, 2011
Private Eye: the First 50 Years, an A-Z -- so glossy that it dazzles the eye and packed with coloured pictures, unlike the magazine -- is different from the publications that are satirised as littering the "lounges" of suburbia. The beautifully written commentary, which holds the book together, contains less than complimentary stories about the men and women who made the magazine it celebrates. And the text dares to offend against even the most sacred of taboos. --Roy Hattersley, Times, September 13, 2011
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45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
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A complete and utter history of Private Eye(1961-2011).,
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This review is from: Private Eye the First 50 Years: An A-Z (Hardcover)
As a reader and occasional contributor(where's my 10 quid?) to Lord Gnome's organ since the early 1960s, I found Adam Macqueen's A-Z history of the first 50 years of Private Eye a hugely entertaining and informative read. All of the Eye's creations and its victims are here along with revealing portraits of the main founders and contributors such as Richard Ingrams, Paul Foot, Auberon Waugh, Willie Rushton, Tony Rushton, Peter Cook, Claud Cockburn, Barry Fantoni, Francis Wheen, Michael 'Slicker' Gillard & Ian Hislop.Although once described by a former contributor as "the most unpleasant thing in British journalism", Private Eye's brilliant mix of jokes, satire and investigative reporting now enjoys fortnightly sales of around 230,000. Adam Macqueen's labour of love deserves to be read by all fans of the Eye and long may the mag continue(2094). Do I get my O.B.N. now?
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Great stuff, guys!,
By Belochka "The Grey" (Oxford, U.K.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Private Eye the First 50 Years: An A-Z (Hardcover)
As a fairly recent reader of Private Eye (for only the last five years or so), initially I held back from buying The First 50 Years thinking it might have too many in-jokes for a relative newbie to read. I'm gladly proved wrong as it's very informative and an excellent quality hardback.It wasn't necessary to get further than opening the front cover before starting to laugh. The choice, derogatory, quotes from a wide variety of The Eye's enemies over the last half a century is just marvellous. (Favourite being: Pornographer Richard Desmond, 2010 "I've never bought a copy. I won't give them the satisfaction.") The inclusion of a cross-reference system for section entries I found a very useful way of keeping track of the stories discovered, writs issued and the internal ructions. All of which benefit from being read consecutively. It's here that I really appreciated the research that went into the various different recollections of some of the less than glorious moments in the magazine's history. It's blunt, contradictory, no-one comes out smelling of roses and it explains a lot of background that was fuzzy, for me anyway. For all the the strife and not always prepossessing personalities at work; the coverage of all the great, the good and the bad is fascinating. There's more than enough detail to keep me coming back to read this for a long time. Also, I can now get some of the jokes. Here's to another fifty years! And thank you to Bogbrush for the review title.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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A Wonderful book,
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This review is from: Private Eye the First 50 Years: An A-Z (Hardcover)
I find this book to be wonderfully informative, and witty, as it goes behind the satire.Many years' ago I met Ian Hislop at an inaugural lecture at Royal Holloway University - the lecture was on ancient Roman literature. He is as witty, and intelligent, as is also evinced from this book. We do need to know how the satire is created, hence this book. I would add that I contributed to The Eye circa 2007, when HMRC lost their discs. As a former HMRC employee, and while I was there, I was proud to leak information to The Eye. It was the most productive work I ever did. If anyone ever works, or worked, for large PFI Groups, or gubernatorial agencies, your Eye needs you: leak to The Eye. You will feel good about it.
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