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PRIVATE EYE Adam Macqueen

PRIVATE EYE By Adam Macqueen

PRIVATE EYE by Adam Macqueen


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Summary

Private Eye: The 60 Yearbook is a history of the last 60 years, as seen by Britain's first, most successful and indeed only fortnightly satirical magazine.

PRIVATE EYE Summary

PRIVATE EYE: THE 60 YEARBOOK by Adam Macqueen

Private Eye: The 60 Yearbook is a history of the last 60 years, as seen by Britain's first, most successful and indeed only fortnightly satirical magazine. From the Beatles to Brexit, JFK to Trump, the Moon landings to the Mars landings, it tells the story of the past six decades as they were recorded in the Eye's pages. The news stories you remember - and plenty you may have forgotten - are retold in cartoons, covers and the magazine's legendary spoofs as well as extensive extracts from some of its best-loved features like Mrs Wilson's Diary, Dear Bill and The Secret Diary of John Major. It is also the story of the headlines Private Eye made itself, from the earliest stirrings of investigative journalism exposing the Poulson Scandal and Ronan Point, through major miscarriages of justice like the Stephen Lawrence case and the Lockerbie cover-up and national scandals that have cost the country billions in dodgy PFI contracts, government cock-ups and secret sweetheart tax deals. Inside are the stories that led to the fall of two cabinet ministers, countless corrupt business figures and even the official in charge of making sure everyone else in Whitehall's behaviour was above board. It includes writing by such satirical giants as Peter Cook, Richard Ingrams, Craig Brown, Auberon Waugh and Ian Hislop, and pictures by some of the world's best cartoonists including Michael Heath, Gerald Scarfe, Nick Newman, Willie Rushton, Robert Thompson and Ken Pyne.

About Adam Macqueen

Adam Macqueen is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Private Eye: The First 50 Years. He has been a journalist on Private Eye ever since the early days of Tony Blair, and written two other books about the wilder excesses of British politics: The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and Other State Secrets and The Lies of the Land: A Brief History of Political Dishonesty. The first in his Tommy Wildeblood series of political what-if thrillers, Beneath The Streets, was published in 2020 and its sequel The Enemy Within is coming out later this year

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GOR011691644
9781901784695
190178469X
PRIVATE EYE: THE 60 YEARBOOK by Adam Macqueen
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Private Eye Productions Ltd.
20210902
312
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