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Mail Men: The Dark Lords of the Daily Mail

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About the Book

Table of Contents:
Preface: Paul Dacre, Beaten by The Blob? Introduction: The Voice of Middle England? 1 PART I - Schemo Magnifico 1 Magazine Boy 9 2 Newspaper Man 33 3 Mr Leonard Brown 53 PART II - Bunny & Son 4 Whose Mail Is It Anyway? 81 5 The Wrong Side of History 93 6 Faster Than the Mail 111 PART III - The Mail Pill 7 Win a Pub 135 8 A Compact Double-act 151 9 How to be Different 167 10 Tall Stories 186 PART IV - King of Middle England 11 Daily Mail Country 215 12 Scorpio Rising 243 13 The Pencil and the Knife 260 14 Two Funerals and a Promotion 282 15 At the Court of 'King Paul' 294 16 The British Invasion 324 17 People Like Us 348 18 The Death of the Newspaper 360 Afterword: Brexit and Other Departures 375

About the Author :
Adrian Addison is a writer and investigative journalist who has worked for national newspapers in the UK and abroad for the press agency AFP, he was also the news editor for the Today programme on BBC Radio Four and an investigative reporter for the Six O'clock News on BBC One. The Daily Mail offered him a job. Twice.

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'Tremendous . . . A very timely and important account of a modern phenomenon . . . A damned good read.' STEPHEN FRY; 'A wonderfully gossipy and detailed account of the paper's history and an assessment of its current success . . . What a waste nobody has turned the early years of the Daily Mail into a television miniseries.' THE SUNDAY TIMES; 'A rollicking, often compelling read.' PETER PRESTON, OBSERVER; 'Riotously entertaining . . . [Many] will find that Addison has written the expose of the Mail that they always wanted to read.' NEW STATESMAN; 'A gripping and very funny account of the newspaper [that] reveals its brutal brilliance . . . surprisingly jaunty . . . The portrait of the Mail he paints shows that the newspaper is not as bad as some people say: it is even worse.' PROSPECT; 'So readable.' IRISH TIMES; 'Mail Men reads as if the newspaper had put aside all bias and somehow written a book about itself.' DUBLIN REVIEW OF BOOKS; 'Mail Men tells you all you need to know about the inner workings of the paper that brings politicians quaking to beg its favour. This well-informed, diamond-sharp analysis of the Mail phenomenon explains why it dominates England's political culture... A riveting read.' POLLY TOYNBEE; '...riveting, with Addison laying bare the publication's fractious internal politics, as well as the shamelessly sensationalist formula that has driven its success. For all its faults, Mail Men is undoubtedly one of the non-fiction books of the year.' HOT PRESS; 'Excellent... The inside story of how the Daily Mail became a much-feared national institution.' CHOICE magazine; 'Pacey.' GEORGE OSBORNE; 'An illuminating history.' FINANCIAL TIMES; 'Essential reading... gives an unprecedented insight into Paul Dacre.' THE OBSERVER.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781739349202
  • Publisher: AsItIs Books
  • Publisher Imprint: AsItIs Books
  • Edition: New edition
  • No of Pages: 408
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1739349202
  • Publisher Date: 08 Mar 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 198 mm
  • Sub Title: The Dark Lords of the Daily Mail


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