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This
page covers the Financial Times and Economist
groups, in which Pearson has
a predominant stake.
studies
The
Financial Times: A Centenary History (London: Viking
1988) by David Kynaston is the official history of the
Pearson-controlled London financial
paper, which owns half of The Economist group.
Andrew Boyle's acidulous Poor Dear Brendan: The Quest
For Brendan Bracken (London: Hutchinson 1974) leaves
little sense of how the 'bounder' and supposed Churchill
love-child could have become chair of both the Economist
and the Financial Times. Bracken's more perceptively
analysed in the spritzy Eminent Churchillians by
Andrew Roberts (London: Phoenix 1995) and - with less
verve - in Charles Lysaght's Brendan Bracken (London:
Allen Lane 1979), which alas omits Claud Cockburn's sniff
that Bracken was "a man so devious, even his natural
hair looked like a wig".
Richard Cockett edited My Dear Max: The Letters of
Brendan Bracken to Lord Beaverbrook 1925-58 (London:
Rainbow 1990). The milieu's discussed in the second volume
of Stephen Koss' exemplary The Rise & Fall of the
Political Press in Britain (London: Hamish Hamilton
1984).
In the centre of things (1960) is a memoir by
the remarkable Paul Einzig
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