The Investor's Shelf — one person
Rupert Murdoch
Founder of News Corporation and Fox; built a newspaper and television empire across three continents.
8 biographies about them
Biographies about them 8
A large and politically charged literature, with one access-based biography and several prosecution briefs.
Michael Wolff · 2008 · Fifty hours of interviews plus the family; the closest to authorised.
Neil Chenoweth · 2001 · The financial engineering behind News Corp, traced by a forensic reporter.
Bruce Page · 2003 · Structural argument about how the papers trade coverage for political favour.
David McKnight · 2012 · Argues the politics drove the business, not the reverse.
Tom Watson, Martin Hickman · 2012 · Phone hacking, by the MP who pursued it in Parliament.
Neil Chenoweth · 2013 · The pay-TV smartcard hacking operation; the strangest corner of the empire.