NULL-The Fall

Michael Wolff

• 26 september 2023
• 9781405556989

Samenvatting:

Five days before The Fall was published, Rupert Murdoch announced his resignation as Chair of News Corp and handed power to his eldest son Lachlan. Reading Michael Wolff's astonishingly frank and revelatory book - in the scandalous spirit of his trilogy on Donald Trump as well as an instant New York Times bestseller - you can see why he had to go. Here is Murdoch, the frail ninety-two-year-old billionaire - concerned about his legacy, but more concerned about profits. Here are his contentious children, including Lachlan, fighting each other to take over the company. As the fallout from the 2020 US election pummels the reputation of his right-wing network Fox News, the battling Murdoch heirs position themselves for the final act of this riveting drama.


"Michael Wolff's books were my foundation and port of entry for working on Succession." Jeremy Strong

"A Wolff book never fails to be delicious, as well as sweepingly insightful... he has a Murdochian instinct: when in doubt, go for the jugular." The Financial Times

"Gripping" The New European

THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH

Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down.

In his irresistible trilogy on the chaotic Trump presidency - Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslide - the journalist Michael Wolff led readers deep into the twisted corridors of the White House. Drawing on years of unprecedented access to the Murdoch family and key players, he plunges us behind the scenes of another empire of influence, and the result is astonishing and unforgettable.

Here is Rupert Murdoch, the ninety-two-year-old billionaire - concerned about his legacy, but more concerned about profits. Here are his contentious children, jockeying to take over when the old man is gone. Here is star anchor Tucker Carlson considering a run for the presidency while his bosses have other plans for him. Sean Hannity, the richest man in television, has his own plans: to put Trump back in office. While presenter Laura Ingraham is just trying to survive in a man's world.

As the fallout from the 2020 election and the Dominion lawsuit pummels the reputation of the network, the battling Murdoch heirs position themselves for the final act in this riveting drama.

"Michael Wolff's books were my foundation and port of entry for working on Succession." Jeremy Strong ("Kendall Roy")

Praise for Fire and Fury:

#1 New York Times bestseller, a Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer, Financial Times

'The pages of Wolff's book are littered with insults and intrigue, backstabbing and dysfunction' Washington Post

'What makes the book significant is its sly, hilarious portrait of a hollow man, into the black hole of whose needy, greedy ego the whole world has virtually vanished' Guardian