Roy Greenslade Boeken

On 5 November 1991 Robert Maxwell went over the side of his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, in mysterious circumstances. Even in death he was larger than life.In those last crucial months he faced enormous pressures. His global business was shrinking; the banks were pressing for money; BBC's Panorama had exposed his near-the-knuckle activities; he was accused with the foreign editor of the Daily Mirror of being an Israeli spy.Why did the banks pull out from Maxwell's core businesses? What was the truth of the strange claims that he worked for Mossad? How did these pressures weigh on him?Roy Greenslade is in a unique position to be able to answer these questions. While editor of the Daily Mirror he was in close contact with Maxwell, dealing on a day-to-day basis with the tyrannical tycoon's obsessive interest in the paper and his attempts to run it as a personal bulletin board to communicate with world leaders. Later he was able to observe Maxwell in his familiar role of legal adversary - and defeat him.Drawing on his highly detailed diaries and interviews with other people who were close to Maxwell, this is an intimate portrait from one of those afforded unparalleled access to the man.

Tracing the changing face of British Newspapers, Roy Greenslade shows how the way we live has been shaped by what we read. With the insight one would expect from the Media commentator for the Guardian, the newspaper world is brought to life, from its dominance as a news force in the 40s to the salacious world of the gutter press in the 1980s. While analysing such dominant media figures as Rupert Murdoch, Robert Maxwell and Kevin Mackenzie, Profits from Propaganda also examines the trends, the biases and the impact of the Press as we know it today.