{"product_id":"9781908717436","title":"The Fall of the House of Murdoch: Fourteen Days That Ended a Media Dynasty","description":"\u003cp\u003eStructured around the fourteen days in 2011, from the moment the \u003ci\u003eNews of the World\u003c\/i\u003e's hacking of the phone of a murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl was exposed, \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of the House of Murdoch\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting account of the scandal that closed the world's best-selling English-language newspaper, forced one of the most powerful families in the world to appear before Parliament and finally prompted Murdoch's departure from the UK newspaper world he dominated for three decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the book covers more than just Hackgate. It is a forensic expose of News Corp's culture, through the early days in Australian media, the purchase of the \u003ci\u003eNews of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSun\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e group, the Wapping move to the move into satellite broadcasting and the creation of the Fox Network. Exhaustively researched and fully sourced, \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of the House of Murdoch\u003c\/i\u003e is a morality tale for our times, a family drama played out on a world stage and required reading for anyone seeking to understand the hidden connections that bind politics, business and culture together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154015502576,"sku":"9781908717436","price":14.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908717436_p0.jpg?v=1763622569","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908717436","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}