Alan "The Red Fox" Reid : pressman par excellence / Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt.

Bold and thorough, this biography traces the life of one of Australia's most controversial and legendary journalists, Alan "The Red Fox" Reid, who covered the nation's politics from the 1930s to the 1980s. Demonstrating how Reid not only reported the news but shaped it due to his...

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Main Author: Fitzgerald, Ross, 1944-
Other Authors: Holt, Stephen, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sydney : New South, 2010.
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505 0 |a Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; A journalist is born; War and postwar; Capital capers; Petrovied; Sexing up Santamaria; The House of Packer; A Jungle Book; Telling stories; Faceless men; At home with the Liberals; Power struggle; Jolly John; In cold blood; McMahon PM; Whitlam and I; After the crash; From Fraser to Hawke; A last hurrah; Notes; Abbreviations and acronyms; Selected bibliography; Index. 
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