60 mins watch time
Posted March 2021
Culture, History
Within a few days of his death, politician and media tycoon Robert Maxwell was being reviled as the embodiment of greed and corruption. No one had ever fallen so far and so quickly. What went so wrong? How did a war hero and model of society become reduced to a bloated, amoral wreck? Journalist and author John Preston uncovers the true story of his rise and fall.