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by Max Hastings (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 398 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (11 Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0333908376
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333908372
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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In February 2002 Max Hastings retired from his career as a "Fleet Street" Editor. His is an illustrious career which started in 1985, when he was offered the editorship of a national institution - the Daily Telegraph - in a surprise move by its owners. This book tells the story of what happened to him, and to a great newspaper over the next decade. It's all here: the rows with prime ministers, the coverage of great events, the daily routine. Max Hastings describes his complex relationship with his proprietor, Conrad Black. He offers perspectives on the decline of John Major, the troubles of the Royal Family, and the difficulties of dealing with lawyers and celebrities, statesmen and stars. It is unblushing about the author's failures and embarassments as well as his successes. It is above all the story of the excitement and exhilaration of almost 10 years at the helm of one of the greatest newspapers in the world.

About the Author
Max Hastings waseditor and editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph in the late 80s and early 90s. In 1996 he became editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many awards for his journalism, including Journalist of The Year and What the Papers Say Reporter of the Year for his work in the South Atlantic in 1982, and Editor of the Year in 1988. He is the author of 15 books, two of which were named as Yorkshire Post Books of the Year and one of which won the Somerset Maugham Prize.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A rollicking good read, 31 Aug 2004
By Hatty (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers (Paperback)
This book is a rollicking good read. It is also immensely informative. Max Hastings was editor of the Daily Telegraph for almost 10 years and his memoirs show just how a national newspaper gets it together each day (the words "seat" and "pants" spring to mind). He also provides a fresh perspective on events that shook the UK and the world in the late 1980s and 1990s: the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and of apartheid in South Africa, German reunification, Mrs Thatcher's demise and much else.

Of course, we take the results of these events for granted now. But, Max Hastings shows how much they were resisted in certain quarters at the time.

Perhaps the most endearing quality of the book is Hastings' ability to laugh at himself. One obvious example of this is an unflattering photograph of the great editor "leering unbecomingly" at the Princess of Wales. There are many others.

Hastings' pen portraits of colleagues and foes are equally irresistible. Frequently, there are no lengthy descriptions and he lets the subjects' words speak for themselves. Niall Ferguson, when asked by Hastings at an interview what he imagined he would be doing five years hence, responds: "I want to be the A. J. P. Taylor de nos jours".

Conrad Black, when visiting Hastings after the latter's departure from the Daily Telegraph, pronounces: "Nice house you've got here, Max - but it would have been twice the size if you'd stayed with us!"

There are also some piquant observations on the leading politicians of the day, including Mrs T, John Major and Tony Blair.

This is a book which manages to be gossipy without being malicious and hugely entertaining without being light-weight.

Highly recommended.

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9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Editor - Sir Max Hastings, 6 Nov 2002
By D. J. Malleson "themulletboy" (Enfield, England) - See all my reviews
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Max Hastings journey as Editor of the nations most widely read broadsheet has been remarkable. He has witnessed great political change and come into conflict with some of the most powerfull men and women in the land, Mrs Thatcher and the Prince of Wales are just two. Lively, sporadic writing, full of the the energy we come to expect form the distinguished former war Correspondent. I wil not spoil his account of that walk into Stanley in 1982 for you.
Highly recommeded reading.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A frontline seat as it all goes wrong, 31 Oct 2003
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This review is from: Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers (Paperback)
Max Hastings occupied an enviable / terrifying position (depending on your view) during his stint as the highly successful editor of the Daily Telegraph. Pressured from his hard-right wing boss Conrad Black as well as the loony-right faction of the Tory party, Hastings fought to keep a centrist editorial policy in what has always been seen to be the mouthpiece of the Conservative party. Most would crack under the pressure, but Hastings admits to being not a man of overwhelming convictions, and it seems to be this ability to remain aloof from the dogma that ultimately saved him and the paper.

His style is as engaging as his other written work, and he retains a refreshing candour about his errors and predjudices. His historians eye now has the ability to look back at the late 1980's with no little perspective, and a fine job he does too. There is plent6y of meat to chew over too, the fall of Margaret Thatcher, the Tories inability to find their way forward post-Thatcher (plus ca change?) The almighty mess that is the House of Windsor comes in for especially close inspection and is found wanting, especially the Prince of Wales (although Hastings cheerfully admits to being smitten by Diana!)

A fine, pacy revue of an era in British history that appears to be creating ripples still, and thus an essential read. There is an equally fascinating book to be written about the enigmatic, and frankly terrifying Conrad Black, but that will have to wait.

One minor criticism - Max Hastings is surely erudite enough to know that 'chronic' does not mean extreme, but rather continuous over time - a mistake he makes at regural and annoying intervals.

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