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  • The Successor

  • The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch
  • By: Paddy Manning
  • Narrated by: David Linski
  • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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The Successor

By: Paddy Manning
Narrated by: David Linski
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The first major biography of Lachlan Murdoch, one of the world’s most powerful and enigmatic people—an epic saga of ruthless power plays and family battles

As heir apparent to the first global media dynasty, Lachlan Murdoch has been waiting to run his father Rupert’s empire all his life. In this riveting first biography of a little-understood but hugely influential figure, acclaimed journalist Paddy Manning asks: Can the dutiful son hang onto the empire, or will the third generation of Murdoch moguls prove the last?

Despite a life in the spotlight, Lachlan’s personality, politics, and business acumen remain obscure. Is he the ultra-conservative ideologue media reports maintain, or a free-thinking libertarian, as some friends suggest?

Drawing on unprecedented access to Lachlan Murdoch’s inner circle, Manning explores Lachlan’s upbringing, his political beliefs, what we can expect from his time at the helm, and whether he has what it takes to chart a future for this century-old company.

This is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the global media world, and about America in the age of Trump and Murdoch. It is a book about power, apprenticeship, and succession.

©2022 Paddy Manning (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
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How Lachlan has succeeded Rupert as the Foxy Murdoch behind the Fox machine

This book is very much about the rise of Lachlan Murdoch as true heir to his aging but still potent father. Unfortunately for an American listener it is a long slog through the early years in Australia until the Aussie narrator gets to the story of how the Murdochs outFoxed all other US media and created the right wing super power it controls through paper public corporations . The mid section on how Lachlan fought and beat brother James is fascinating but the real red meat is in the final third of this book as Laughlin rises to take the reins of power from his smart, tough Always crafty father. Lachlans style is different from Rupert but no less tough and determined to control not just media but also the world. The hit tv series Secession is very much based on the Murdochs but real life is also a great story and in many ways even more frightening for what it means to all Americans.

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