David Astor
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0099552124 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor of the Observer is a great exception to the rule. At Oxford he suffered the first of the bouts of depression that were to blight his life; a lost soul for much of the Thirties, he became involved in attempts to put the British Government in touch with the German opposition in the months leading up to the war.George Orwell had urged Astor to champion the decolonisation of Africa, and Nelson Mandela always acknowledged how much he owed to the Observer’s long-standing support. He converted a staid, Conservative-supporting Sunday paper into essential reading, admired and envied for the quality of its writers and for its trenchant but fair-minded views.Astor grew up
The book is a great achievement." —Piers Brendon. "A fascinating, well-written and brilliantly researched account