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Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Media Wizard BY Neil Chenoweth. Crown Business. Hardcover, 416 pages. $27.
The cover of Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Media Wizard

If we follow the logic of Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, we could say that Rupert Murdoch is not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world. He is the way we live now; he is the media magnate we deserve. It is almost impossible to say a single conclusive, summing-up thing about him.