{"product_id":"young-rupert","title":"Young Rupert","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublisher's description:\u003cbr\u003eIn September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputation, the young and brash son of Sir Keith Murdoch had arrived to fulfill his father's dying wish- for Rupert to live a 'useful altruistic and full life' in the media.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor decades, Sir Keith had been a giant of the Australian press, but his final years were spent bitterly fending off rivals and would-be successors. When the dust settled on his father's estate, Rupert was left with the Adelaide-based News Ltd and its afternoon paper The News - a minor player in a small, parochial city.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBut even this inheritance was soon under siege, as the left-wing 'Boy Publisher' stared down his father's old colleagues at the city's paper of record, The Advertiser, and a conservative establishment kept in power by a decades-old gerrymander.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLed by Rupert's friend, ally, and editor-in-chief Rohan Rivett, the fledgling Murdoch press began a seven-year campaign of circulation wars, expansion, and courtroom battles that divided the city and would lay the foundations for a global empire - if Rupert and Rohan didn't end up in custody first.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on unpublished archival material and new reportage, Young Rupert pieces together a paper trail of succession, sedition, and power - and a fascinating time capsule of Australian media on the cusp of an extraordinary ascension.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Walter Marsh \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Scribe Publications\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 352\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublished: 1 August 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781761380044\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Shop at Old Parliament House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52021389885751,"sku":"9781761380044","price":37.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/9559\/0967\/files\/File-6514_medium_841c5e0a-6efc-413c-9f46-5c51d154bcb0.png?v=1776900852","url":"https:\/\/shop.moadoph.gov.au\/products\/young-rupert","provider":"The Shop at Old Parliament House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}