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David Syme - Man of the Age (Paperback)
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David Syme - Man of the Age (Paperback)
Series: Biography
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In Australia, from Victoria's goldrush of the 1850s to Melbourne's
boom of the 1880s and bust-to-recovery of the 1890s, newspapers
dominated the Australian publishing scene. Uniquely, they provided
local, intercolonial, and international news; magazine content from
the popular to the intellectual; and the latest literature,
especially novels in serial installments. By the 1870s, the
Melbourne Age newspaper dominated the journalistic stage. In the
1880s, its circulation was far in excess of any other daily
throughout all British colonial possessions. Its proprietor, the
driven and talented immigrant Scotsman David Syme, was acknowledged
as the leader of the Australian press. For the influence that he
and his newspapers exercised, Syme became a legend in his lifetime
and for several generations after his death in 1908. Making use of
family and business records, as well as the massive 19th-century
newspaper archive now accessible through digitization, this
biography of a powerful man goes behind the legend and rounds out
the story of David Syme's life - primarily as a press 'baron, ' but
also as a theorist, author, financier, farmer, property developer,
and, not least, family man. (Series: Biography)
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