Reading list: family dynasties

At the Independent Will Dean compiled a brief reading list on family dynasties, including one book about a media dynasty:

The Man Who Owns The News by Michael Wolff

Wolff's biography of Rupert Murdoch – written using 50 hours of taped interviews with the News Corp chairman – may be a profile of the main player in the dynasty, but Rupert's rise (and now possible fall) is interwoven with his family. Wolff tells his story from inheriting the family business from father Sir Keith to his continuing (and how!) struggle to anoint an heir.

Read about a novel on the reading list.

Also see Fouad Ajami's five best books about financial dynasties.

--Marshal Zeringue