Tag: Book Notes

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  LALA’S BOOKNOTES: Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the epic fight to control the last great media dynasty broke a family—and the world, by Gabriel Sherman

  ‘Bonfire of the Murdochs’ by Gabriel Sherman traces Rupert Murdoch’s ruthless creation of a $17 billion global media empire. It exposes a toxic “Darwinian” succession war pitting his children—Lachlan, James, Liz, and Prue—against each other. Ultimately, the patriarch destroyed his own family to secure his right-wing corporate legacy.

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  MURDOCH’S 5 WIVES: Managing a portfolio of mergers and liquidations

  Rupert treated his marriages like corporate acquisitions, acquiring wives for specific eras and ruthlessly discarding them. He neglected his first wife, Patricia, and divorced his second, Anna, who famously forced a “poison pill” family trust. After dumping his third wife, Wendi, he later fired his fourth, Jerry Hall, via a cold email.

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  RUPERT MURDOCH: The man who wanted everything

  Rupert Murdoch built a $17 billion global media colossus, only to destroy everything he loved in the process. Driven by childhood trauma, he approached business and family as a ruthless “Darwinian struggle”. Resembling a tragic King Midas, he engineered a devastating succession war that permanently fractured his family to protect his right-wing legacy.