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2023
Penguin Business (Verlag)
978-0-241-55360-2 (ISBN)
Penguin Business (Verlag)
978-0-241-55360-2 (ISBN)
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How To Buy An Island is the definitive account of the Barclay brothers, charting their incredible journey to power and fortune. Journalist Jane Martinson unravels shocking and previously-buried stories from the brothers' six-decade long reign at the peak of British business: from their close association with Margaret Thatcher and the massive wealth they garnered from it; to their audacious and controversial acquisition of The Telegraph newspaper; to the scandalous inside story of their public fallout, a dispute mired in succession, betrayal, espionage and inheritance which ultimately left the family split in two.
But this is not just a biography of two of Britain's strangest billionaires. This is the story of a world that would become Brexit Britain, with its tightly enmeshed webs of influence between capitalism, politics and the media. The lives of the brothers reveal much about post-war Britain and a new, ruthless way of doing business which has proved remarkably resilient - they built their wealth in the UK, but retained it by siphoning the profits from their network of private companies to offshore entities in a purposefully complicated corporate web.
How To Buy An Island is an examination of politics, corruption, deception, power and money over the last 70 years of British history - not just the story of two impoverished children-turned-billionaire-knights-of-the-empire, but a story of humanity, its limitations and, ultimately, its power to change the world.
But this is not just a biography of two of Britain's strangest billionaires. This is the story of a world that would become Brexit Britain, with its tightly enmeshed webs of influence between capitalism, politics and the media. The lives of the brothers reveal much about post-war Britain and a new, ruthless way of doing business which has proved remarkably resilient - they built their wealth in the UK, but retained it by siphoning the profits from their network of private companies to offshore entities in a purposefully complicated corporate web.
How To Buy An Island is an examination of politics, corruption, deception, power and money over the last 70 years of British history - not just the story of two impoverished children-turned-billionaire-knights-of-the-empire, but a story of humanity, its limitations and, ultimately, its power to change the world.
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.10.2023 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 750 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-241-55360-1 / 0241553601 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-241-55360-2 / 9780241553602 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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