Max Hastings, Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers (2003)
“We’re taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we’re all ultimately ridiculous.” —Max Hastings, Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers
Read more about Max Hastings’s memoir, covering his editorship of The Telegraph from 1985 to 2002, in The Guardian (“The view from Hastings,” October 12, 2002).
Sighting Citation:
“Max Hastings, Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers (2003).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. October 28, 2022. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/max-hastings-editor-an-inside-story-of-newspapers-2003/.
Posted October 28, 2022