{"product_id":"young-rupert","title":"Young Rupert","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\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\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\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for a global empire — if Rupert and Rohan didn’t end up in custody first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on unpublished archival material and new reportage, Young Rupert pieces together a paper trail of succession, sedition, and power — and a fascinating time capsule of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","brand":"Walter Marsh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178020159657,"sku":"9781761380044","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781761380044.jpg?v=1781245461","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/young-rupert","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}