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David Astor
Jeremy Lewis
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Description for David Astor
Paperback. David Astor is a great exception to the rule. His early life was far from idyllic. At Oxford he suffered the first of the bouts of depression that were to blight his life, and he became a lost soul for much of the Thirties but when he took the Observer on in 1948 he converted a staid Sunday paper into essential reading. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; KNTJ; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 35. Weight in Grams: 602.
Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor is a great exception to the rule. Growing up surrounded by astonishing wealth (the family home was so large it included a miniature railway to transport meals to the dining room) Astor's early life was far from idyllic. At Oxford he suffered the first of the bouts of depression that were to blight his life, and he became a lost soul for much of the Thirties but when he took the Observer on in 1948 he converted a staid Sunday paper into essential reading. Employing the likes of Kim ... Read more
Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor is a great exception to the rule. Growing up surrounded by astonishing wealth (the family home was so large it included a miniature railway to transport meals to the dining room) Astor's early life was far from idyllic. At Oxford he suffered the first of the bouts of depression that were to blight his life, and he became a lost soul for much of the Thirties but when he took the Observer on in 1948 he converted a staid Sunday paper into essential reading. Employing the likes of Kim ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099552123
SKU
V9780099552123
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About Jeremy Lewis
A former publisher and the deputy editor of the Oldie, Jeremy Lewis has written three volumes of autobiography and biographies of Cyril Connolly, Tobias Smollett and Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books. Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family, was published by Cape in 2010.
Reviews for David Astor
Jeremy Lewis has written a definitive account of Astor and his world.
Robert McCrum
Observer
Lewis's affectionate and endearing biography is also a nostalgic celebration of the liberal intelligentsia and metropolitan elite...from the 1940s to the 1970s. There are many rewards in this book, which is full of old Fleet Street gossip, big names ... Read more
Robert McCrum
Observer
Lewis's affectionate and endearing biography is also a nostalgic celebration of the liberal intelligentsia and metropolitan elite...from the 1940s to the 1970s. There are many rewards in this book, which is full of old Fleet Street gossip, big names ... Read more