Closing Balances: Business Obituaries from The Daily Telegraph - Hardcover

Massingberd, Hugh

 
9781845132040: Closing Balances: Business Obituaries from The Daily Telegraph

Synopsis

The Daily Telegraph's trademark obituary style, created by Hugh Massingberd, is distinguished by the quality of the writing, the humor and the focus on the individuality and character of the subjects. This new collection, the first to be devoted to the business world, is divided into nine sections, each concentrating on a particular group such as "City Chaps," "Entrepreneurs," "Rogues and Mavericks," or "Gurus." In all, some one hundred individuals who died over the past 20 years are covered, most of them British but also including, under the heading of "Global Players," international figures such as Akio Morita, the founder of Sony, or Giovanni Agnelli of Fiat.

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About the Author

Martin Vander Weyer is business editor and columnist for The Spectator and the business obituarist of The Daily Telegraph, perhaps the only journalist specialising in the field. He was previously the City Editor of The Week and spent fifteen years working as an investment banker in London Brussels and the Far East. His first book, Falling Eagle: The Decline of Barclay's Bank (2000), was described by The Economist as 'Instructive, terrifying and wonderfully entertaining'.

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