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Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor of the Observer is a great exception to the rule. Best remembered for his denunciation of Anthony Eden's duplicity at the time of Suez, he converted a staid, Conservative-supporting Sunday paper into essential reading for the liberal-minded, admired and envied for the quality of its writers and for its trenchant but fair-minded views. He was made editor in 1948, ushering in the Observer's 'golden age', when Terence Kilmartin edited the books pages, Alan Ross was the cricket correspondent, Kenneth Tynan was the enfant terrible of theatre criticism - and Kim Philby was the paper's Beirut stringer. Astor was a brilliant talent spotter - Anthony Sampson, Michael Davie, Katharine Whitehorn and John Gale were later joined by Michael Frayn, Neal Ascherson and Clive James. Astor grew up at Cliveden, the country house on the Thames which his grandfather had bought when he turned his back on New York, the source of the family fortune. His liberal-minded father was a constant support, but his relations with his mother, Nancy, were always embattled. At Oxford he suffered the first of the bouts of depression that were to blight his life, prompting a lifelong devotion to psychoanalysis; he seemed a lost soul for much of the Thirties until, in the months leading up to the war, he became involved in Adam von Trott's attempts to put the British Government in touch with the German opposition. George Orwell had urged Astor to champion the decolonisation of Africa, and Nelson Mandela always acknowledged how much he owed to the Observer's long-standing support; his hatred of demonisation, whether of groups of individuals, led him to befriend Myra Hindley; he was as outraged by the Profumo Affair as he had been years earlier, by talk of the pre-war 'Cliveden Set'; a generous benefactor to good causes, he helped to set up Amnesty International, Index on Censorship and the Minority Rights Group. He was a good man and a great editor, and he deserves to be better remembered.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities History Regional & national history

• Pełny tytuł: David Astor
• Autor: Jeremy Lewis
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 432
• EAN: 9780224090902
• ISBN: 0224090909
• ID: 09367097
• Wydawca: Vintage Publishing
• Waga: 820 g
• Wymiary: 239 × 159 × 39 mm
• Data wydania: 03. March 2016

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