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The Fourth Estate is a 1996 novel by Jeffrey Archer. It chronicles the lives of two media barons, Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend, from their starkly contrasting childhoods to their ultimate battle to build the world's biggest media empire.
- Jeffrey Archer
- 1996
Like some two-headed mutant offspring of Citizen Kane, Jeffrey Archer's new novel offers a thinly disguised account of the lives of Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch, here called Richard...
It transpires, however, that Maxwell has already spent the money, and the episode ends with a vengeful B'Stard giving him "an amazing deja-vu experience" by pushing him over the side of his yacht, where he presumably dies. The Fourth Estate, a 1996 novel by Jeffrey Archer, is based on the lives of Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch. [80]
May 5, 1996 · Lubji Hoch survived World War II on luck, guts, and ruthlessness. At the war's end, renamed Richard Armstrong, he buys a floundering newspaper in Berlin and deviously puts his competitors out of business. But it isn't enough.
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Feb 2, 2021 · The collapse revealed that Maxwell had raided the cash in his companies’ bank accounts and “borrowed” the shares in their pension funds — including those of Mirror Group Newspapers. John ...
Feb 22, 2021 · First published in 1996, Jeffrey Archer’s The Fourth Estate chronicles the lives of two aspiring (and fiercely competitive) media moguls, inspired by the real-life stories of Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch. Check out my thoughts on the novel here or by clicking the image below.
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Jul 14, 2020 · On Robert Maxwell’s death, when he was found floating in the sea off the Canary Islands in 1991, Ghislaine was the one child who flew to Tenerife to manage the bleak paperwork. She claimed that he had not commit suicide but had been murdered.
