Mail Men : The Dark Lords of the Daily Mail （3RD）

Addison, Adrian/ Bridge, Andy/ Steadman, Ralph (ILT)

AsItIs Books（2024/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 408 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781739349202
• DDC分類 072

Full Description

Mail Men is the gripping, unofficial story of the Daily Mail that the newspaper's bosses, and their lawyers, really didn't want you to read.

This witty and critically acclaimed account squeezes the juicy truth from people who spent years toiling for tyrants inside a 'hideous, joyless place to work'. And where did their masters end up? In the House of Lords, of course; founder Alfred 'Sunny' Harmsworth died insane as Lord Northcliffe while his Hitler-loving kid brother Harold was the first of four Lord Rothermeres. The tabloid's 1970s saviour Sir David English was also made a Lords but died just days before he could slip into his robes.

Today's supreme Mailman Paul Dacre is also a wannabe Peer of the Realm... but will the new King ever let him in?

Contents

Preface: Paul Dacre, Beaten by The Blob?
Introduction: The Voice of Middle England? 1

PART I - Schemo Magnifico

1 Magazine Boy 9
2 Newspaper Man 33
3 Mr Leonard Brown 53

PART II - Bunny & Son

4 Whose Mail Is It Anyway? 81
5 The Wrong Side of History 93
6 Faster Than the Mail 111

PART III - The Mail Pill

7 Win a Pub 135
8 A Compact Double-act 151
9 How to be Different 167
10 Tall Stories 186

PART IV - King of Middle England

11 Daily Mail Country 215
12 Scorpio Rising 243
13 The Pencil and the Knife 260
14 Two Funerals and a Promotion 282
15 At the Court of 'King Paul' 294
16 The British Invasion 324
17 People Like Us 348
18 The Death of the Newspaper 360

Afterword: Brexit and Other Departures 375