Kick 'Em Back. Wilson, Maxwell and me
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- Author(s) Haines, Joe
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2019
- Pages 262pp; illus
- Publisher Grosvenor House
- Place Published Guildford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Provides an account of the author's dealings with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the media entrepreneur and 'Daily Mirror' owner, Robert Maxwell, with both of whom he was closely associated in his career. Joe Haines, b1928, was influential political adviser to Harold Wilson and in 1976 joined the 'Daily Mirror' as a political journalist. Following Maxwell's takeover of the 'Mirror', Haines was appointed political editor and later a senior executive. He is noted for his authorised and much ridiculed biography of Maxwell