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Fourth Estate
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1994
Copyright © Tim Jackson 1994, 1995
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Source ISBN: 9780006382676
Ebook Edition © DECEMBER 2016 ISBN: 9780008240646
Version: 2017-01-05
For Emily Marbach
CONTENTS
2 One Per Cent of Tubular Bells
5 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
8 ‘Too Liberal a Use of the Lawyers’
9 The Little Boys and Their Boats
12 ‘I’ve Got to Believe You’re Serious about It’
15 Recovery in Woodstock Street
17 Branson Succumbs to Takeover Fever
18 Loos, Booze and Upper Class
21 How John Thornton Earned His $3m
23 Heathrow Airport and the Slot Machine
