Newspapers of the Consensus
Neal Ascherson, 21 February 1985
The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain. Vol. II: The 20th Century
by Stephen Koss.
Hamish Hamilton, 718 pp., £25, March 1984,0 241 11181 1 Show More
by Stephen Koss.
Hamish Hamilton, 718 pp., £25, March 1984,
Lies, Damned Lies and Some Exclusives
by Henry Porter.
Chatto, 211 pp., £9.95, October 1984,0 7011 2841 0 Show More
by Henry Porter.
Chatto, 211 pp., £9.95, October 1984,
Garvin of the ‘Observer’
by David Ayerst.
Croom Helm, 314 pp., £25, January 1985,0 7099 0560 2 Show More
by David Ayerst.
Croom Helm, 314 pp., £25, January 1985,
The Beaverbrook I Knew
edited by Logan Gourlay.
Quartet, 272 pp., £11.95, September 1984,0 7043 2331 1 Show More
edited by Logan Gourlay.
Quartet, 272 pp., £11.95, September 1984,
“... this press? Look what they do with the information they have already!’ Two works of biography, David Ayerst’s life of J.L. Garvin and Logan Gourlay’s collection of memoirs of Beaverbrook, serve to colour out the process which Stephen Koss describes – and the decline. Garvin, editor of the Observer from 1908 to 1942, was beyond challenge the ... ”
