{"product_id":"9781398562042","title":"Bonfire of the Murdochs","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Gabriel Sherman\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBiography: business \u0026amp; industry\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 February 2026 by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e161 x 242 x 28 | 448g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An exuberant chronicle of seduction and betrayal' - Tina Brown, The Observer‘A rollercoaster account […] What Bonfire of the Murdochs, a slim book by Gabriel Sherman, achieves is to condense the history to its essence. The book seeks to explain Murdoch’s broken family relationships not as a departure from his empire-building, but a product of the same ruthlessness that facilitated his success’ – Financial Times‘This is the book for fans of Succession. […] Sherman knows his material. He has a clear fascination with viewing global events through the lens of a single, power-hungry protagonist’ – New StatesmanWhen Rupert Murdoch made a fateful decision about who should inherit his media colossus, he believed that pitting his children against each other would produce the most capable heir. Twenty-five years later, that gamble would tear apart one of the world’s most powerful families and trigger a multi-billion dollar reckoning in a succession battle featuring betrayals, lawsuits, and revenge plots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Bonfire of the Murdochs, bestselling author Gabriel Sherman tells the inside story of this epic family war, one whose seeds were planted a half-century ago in Australia when the complicated patriarch left his homeland to conquer the world and please the ghost of his judgmental father. That quest culminated in a media empire that controlled Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and tabloids on three continents, which wielded more political and cultural power than any single company in modern times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Rupert’s plan to rip up the secret trust controlling his empire and anoint his conservative firstborn son Lachlan as successor set him on a collision course with his three more liberal children What price would Rupert pay to secure his legacy? For the aging patriarch, this would be his final and most personal deal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on interviews with more than 150 sources, Bonfire of the Murdochs is a richly textured narrative where each child plays their predestined role in a blood feud that explodes in a courtroom showdown. There, Murdoch’s children weaponize his own secrets against him. It is a tragedy Shakespeare would have appreciated, where getting everything you want costs everything you love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56374259089794,"sku":"9781398562042","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9781398562042.jpg?v=1771225226","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.pro\/products\/9781398562042","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}