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0241388686 
Fall : the mystery of Robert Maxwell / John Preston.
Publication year: 2021
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Classification: B.MAXWELL
Publisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2021.
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780241388686 (pbk.) :
Notes:
Originally published: London: Viking.
In February 1991, Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour on board his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine. He had come to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. Crowds lined the quayside to watch his arrival. Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand, children asked for his autograph and when Maxwell went to dine in the most fashionable Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, all the diners gave him a standing ovation. 10 months later, he disappeared off the same yacht and was found dead in the water. Within a few days, Maxwell was being reviled as the embodiment of greed and unscrupulousness. No one had ever fallen so far and so quickly. What went so wrong? How did a man who had once laid such store on the importance of ethics and good behaviour become reduced to a bloated, amoral wreck? This is a dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of Robert Maxwell.
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xxvii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
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This is a brilliant book which runs almost like a fast moving novel describing the life of Robert Maxwell, Newspaper tycoon and owner of the Daily Mirror until his death. Maxwell died in 1991 so many people under 40 will have little knowledge of his life and how he had such an influence on leading
10/02/22
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