Rupert Murdoch (Review and Analysis of Tuccille's Book)

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The must-read summary of Jerome Tuccille's book: "Rupert Murdoch: Australia's Richest Man".

This complete summary of the ideas from Jerome Tuccille's book "Rupert Murdoch" tells the life story of one of the world's most successful businessmen. In his book, the author takes a look at Murdoch's life, giving fascinating biographical detail and analysing why and how he became so powerful. This summary also explores how Murdoch's early years had an indelible effect on his future business life and how he moved from being the owner of one Australian newspaper to international dominance.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Business Book Summaries
• Release date: Oct 14, 2014
• ISBN: 9782511018194

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Book Presentation: Rupert Murdoch by Jerome Tuccille

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Summary of Rupert Murdoch (Jerome Tuccille)

1. The Early Years

2. Great Britain

3. The United States of America

4. Consolidation

5. The Electronic Age

6. Setting New Records

7. Looking To The Future

8. Keys of Success

Important Note About This Ebook

This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.

1. The Early Years

Keith Rupert Murdoch was born on 11 March 1931 on a farm 30 miles south of Melbourne. He was the second child and the only boy in a family of four.

Keith Murdoch Senior was an established newspaper journalist in Australia with ownership interests in the Herald in Melbourne, the Courier-Mail in Brisbane and the News and Sunday Mail in Adelaide.

Rupert Murdoch graduated from Geelong Grammar in 1949 and then went to study at Oxford University in Great Britain. While at university, Murdoch established a definite reputation for gambling and the normal student activities - chasing girls, drinking binges, sports and dabbling in socialism.

When Murdoch’s father died from a heart attack in 1952, Rupert returned to Australia. To pay estate taxes, the Murdoch family share holding in the Herald and the Courier-Mail were sold. At age 22, Rupert Murdoch was appointed publisher of the Adelaide News and Sunday Mail.

"I had enormous respect for my father. He was a great journalist who started as a reporter and finally became the chief executive of a company that he built, but was not a large shareholder of. He was able to buy a little paper in Adelaide which he left to my sisters and me. But I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man’s home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range, and after the age of ten or twelve never considered any other. Because if you’re in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things