"Editor" by Max Hastings

An inside story of Newspapers

In December 1985, Max Hastings was an author and Sunday Times columnist living deep in the Northamptonshire countryside, when he was suddenly, and dramatically, offered the chanse to become editor of the Daily Telegraph.

Editor tells the story of what happened to him, and to a great newspaper, over the next decade.

Hastings memoir of his experiences as a foreign correspondent, Going to wars, became a best seller and was widely praised for it's unflinching honesty. Editor is a book written in the same spirit, unblushing about the authors failures and embarrassments as well as about his successes. It is above all the story of the excitement and exhileration of almost ten years at the helm of one of the greatest newspapers in Britain, at the time of some of the most important events in history.

£20.00