The Successor

The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch

De: Paddy Manning

Narrado por: David Linski

The first major biography of Lachlan Murdoch, one of the world’s most powerful and enigmatic people—an epic saga of ruthless power plays and family battles

As heir apparent to the first global media dynasty, Lachlan Murdoch has been waiting to run his father Rupert’s empire all his life. In this riveting first biography of a little-understood but hugely influential figure, acclaimed journalist Paddy Manning asks: Can the dutiful son hang onto the empire, or will the third generation of Murdoch moguls prove the last?

Despite a life in the spotlight, Lachlan’s personality, politics, and business acumen remain obscure. Is he the ultra-conservative ideologue media reports maintain, or a free-thinking libertarian, as some friends suggest?

Drawing on unprecedented access to Lachlan Murdoch’s inner circle, Manning explores Lachlan’s upbringing, his political beliefs, what we can expect from his time at the helm, and whether he has what it takes to chart a future for this century-old company.

This is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the global media world, and about America in the age of Trump and Murdoch. It is a book about power, apprenticeship, and succession.

©2022 Paddy Manning (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Thoroughly Enjoyed But Also Super Angry

I went into listening to this book with basic knowledge of the Murdoch name but not much knowledge on what exactly they've done (mostly hearing about it in relation to Wendy Deng and her scandal and her journey from growing up in China learning English, to working for Star Network, to eventually becoming Mrs Rupert Murdoch and the scandal that followed), and I was not disappointed what I heard, rather ended up feeling super heated at how a single family can own so much in the world and the one who is poised to take over the crown, so to speak, can be so willfully ignorant of what is happening at a company he bought that shaped politics as a whole in the world post-COVID. I was honestly rooting for Lochlan at the beginning of the book but by the middle of it, I was genuinely questioning how he was given so much money and power and was able to make so many poor decisions with it. Would highly recommend to anybody interested in learning about the Murdoch's (planning to watch Succession next), as well as learn how they changed Fox to what it is today, which is honestly a Trump yes-man station as they really view anything he does through rose-tinted sunglasses and take and report on everything he says with a grain of salt.