Pissing on Pedestrians
Owen Bennett-Jones: A Great Unravelling, 1 April 2021
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
by John Preston.
Viking, 322 pp., £18.99, February,978 0 241 38867 9 Show More
by John Preston.
Viking, 322 pp., £18.99, February,
“... contemptuous of once trusted friends and colleagues. Other great egos of our time – Philip Green and Conrad Black, for example – have had the same problem. Maxwell’s grandiosity reached such a pitch that he told the Mirror’s editor Roy Greenslade that a headline about Russian troops invading Lithuania must be wrong because ‘Gorbachev wouldn’t ... ”