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With enemies like these…

Rupert Murdoch’s last five years have been the worst of his career, but a new biography by Sydney University’s Rodney Tiffen is so unfair that even <i>Peter Oborne</i>, one of the newspaper magnate’s severest critics, found himself warming to him

17 May 2014

9:00 AM

17 May 2014

9:00 AM

Rupert Murdoch: A Reassessment Rodney Tiffen

New South, pp.384, $34.99, ISBN: 9781742233567

Rupert Murdoch is not simply a great newspaperman; he is also one of the greatest businessmen of the second half of the 20th century. For 50 years he has taken breathtaking risks, created new business out of nothing, and destroyed his rivals. Courted by presidents and prime ministers, he is a living symbol of capitalism at its most creative and destructive.

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