David Astor

Hardcover • 2016 • English

David Astor

By Jeremy Lewis

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About the book

A New Statesman Book of the YearFew newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor of the Observer is a great exception to the rule. He converted a staid, Conservative-supporting Sunday paper into essential reading, admired and envied for the quality of its writers and for its trenchant but fair-minded views. 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. ...Show more

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ISBN

9780224090902

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

David Astor

Format

Hardcover

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