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the financial press
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Reuters
The Power of News: The History of
Reuters (Oxford, Oxford Uni Press 94) by Donald Read is a concise
corporate history of the information company. There's a more panoramic
view in Jonathan Fenby's The International News
Services (New York, Schocken 86)
the Financial Times
The Financial Times: A Centenary
History (London, Viking 88) by David Kynaston is very much the
official corporate history of the London financial paper, which owns
half of The Economist.
Andrew Boyle's acidulous Poor Dear
Brendan: The Quest For Brendan Bracken (Hutchinson, London 74)
leaves little sense of how the 'bounder' and supposed Churchill love-child
could have become chair of both the Economist and the Financial Times.
Bracken's more perceptively analysed in
the spritzy Eminent Churchillians by Andrew Roberts (London,
Phoenix 95) and - with less verve - in Charles Lysaght's Brendan Bracken
(London, Allen Lane 79).
Richard Cockett edited My Dear Max:
The Letters of Brendan Bracken to Lord Beaverbrook 1925-58 (London,
Rainbow 90). The milieu's discussed in the second volume of Stephen
Koss' exemplary The Rise & Fall of the Political Press in Britain
(London, Hamish Hamilton 84)
Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal's
diversified more than the London Financial Times, with holdings in
local newspapers, online services, business journals.
The Power & the Money (New
York, Birch Lane Press 93) by Francis X Daly is a warts & all study
of the Wall Street Journal. More serious treatment is given in Worldly
Power: The Making of the Wall Street Journal (Beaufort, New York
1986) by Edward Scharff.
The following page provides an inventory of
Dow Jones holdings.
Forbes
Recent biographies of Malcolm Forbes -
self-described 'capitalist tool', father of presidential contender and
flat-tax advocate Steve Forbes - just give the warts: beefy boys,
balloons, bibelots, big bikes.
Capitalist Fools: Tales of American
Business (New York, Doubleday 92) by Nicholas von Hoffman and Manhattan
Passions: True Tales of Power, Wealth & Excess (New York, Morrow
87) by Ron Rosenbaum are the most amusing. Christopher Winans' Malcolm
Forbes: The Man Who Had Everything (New York, St Martins 90) looks
on the dark side.
There's been no serious study of Forbes
magazine (home of the zany George Gilder) and associated publications.
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