In the TV drama Mad Men, about postwar ad men in New York, the ageing secretary Miss Blankenship dies at her desk. Her boss, a partner at the firm, has to find a few words in tribute to someone viewers had known only as occasional annoying comic relief. “She was born in a barn in 1898. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She’s an astronaut.” The point being that the breakneck disruptions and advances of the 20th century meant even the most banal lives were epic in experience.
The life of the disgraced media baron and pension thief Robert Maxwell was certainly not banal. It was epic on a scale no sane screenwriter would attempt to boil into a single script. Such is the sheer volume of events in Maxwell’s life that John Preston’s engaging account, Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, sometimes has only a few paragraphs to deal with episodes that would justify a book on their own.
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