'The Real Lord Northcliffe'

I found this book to be a very interesting insight into Lord Northcliffe's life, it was useful because in the lecture we looked at Northcliffe's achievements and the account looked closely at his characteristics, demeanour and habits.
However these recollections I personally found to be overly biased and complementary , it tended to leave out key facts that would have tainted his memory , for example it mentions his death but fails to mention how he died of syphilis. Which could be considered a less than dignified way to die.
Another disappointing aspect of the book is although it goes into great detail about his personality it only touches slightly on his business ventures, for instance it describes his management of 'The Times' and his conversion of 'The Daily Mail' into a women's paper, but it fails to indulge the reader with details on how the deal was secured, how he heard about the deal and his adjustments to the position. I feel this was a general failure of the whole book , however the lecture cured me of the ignorance the book failed to satisfy.

I am now eagerly awaiting the screening of the film Citizen Kane to do an overall comparison as it will be intriguing to see where these two forms agree and differ. If anyone has any contrasting views or even anything to add I would love to hear what you have to say.