BANGKOK EDITOR

by Alexander MacDonald ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A three year account, 1946-1949, of a newspaperman who instead of following order to go to Washington, got out of the Navy in the Philippines, and returned to Bangkok to start a newspaper, The Post. Here presented are not only the attendant difficulties in setting up and running a paper in Siam, but also the extremely involved politics resulting from the death of the King just before his newssheet got under way. For the mystery followed through a coup d'etat in 1947 and was revived again in 1948, and insofar as the author is concerned is still a mystery. While Siamese internal- and external- politics are a large part of the book, the human interest is in the actual organization of the paper, the issues in which they were involved, and the ways in which news was gathered, censored, authenticated and printed. There are publishing stories to make Horace Greeley roll in his grave, there are characters, saints and sinners, and there is the final decision to stick with the country he loves even when the 1949 threats are ominous. A current events account which offers light on a little known country in an intimate manner.

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Publisher: Macmillan

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1949

Categories: NONFICTION