Lionel Barber

'An extraordinary personal and professional insight into fifteen years of tumultuous times.' - Tony Blair 'Riveting - a world of power, money, ego and disaster, as witnessed from the front row' - Philippe Sands 'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny ... don't miss it' - Misha Glenny 'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering unique insights into high-level decision-making and political calculation, often in moments of crisis. These diaries offer snapshots of leadership in an age of upheaval...' Lionel Barber was Editor of the Financial Times for the tech boom, the global financial crisis, the rise of China, Brexit, and mainstream media's fight for survival in the age of fake news. In this unparalleled, no-holds-barred diary of life behind the headlines, he reveals the private meetings and exchanges with political leaders on the eve of referendums, the conversations with billionaire bankers facing economic meltdown, exchanges with Silicon Valley tech gurus and pleas from foreign emissaries desperate for inside knowledge, all against the backdrop of a wildly shifting media landscape. The result is a fascinating - and at times scathing - portrait of power in our modern age; who has it, what it takes and what drives the men and women with the world at their feet. Featuring close encounters with Trump, Cameron, Blair, Putin, Merkel and Mohammed Bin Salman and many more, this is a rare portrait of the people who continue to shape our world and who quite literally, make the news.

Private Diaries in Turbulent Times

The Powerful and the Damned

A selection of Financial Times interviews with high-profile figures in business, politics, the arts, science and more. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, Lunch with the FT gathers fifty-two fascinating interviews conducted at the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. The list of people who have participated in this popular feature since 1994 reads like an international Who’s Who of our times. Meet the rich and famous, the weird and the brilliant, the brave and the virtuous, all brought to you by the Financial Times’ global network of columnists and correspondents. This book brings you right to the table to decide what you think of Angela Merkel or Martin Amis, George Soros or Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Angelina Jolie or Jimmy Carter. Meet not just oligarchs and royals, but the co-founder of Apple, the codiscoverer of DNA, the tycoon who will pay African presidents to quit, and one of the Arab world’s most notorious sons. Every interview is illustrated with a drawing of its subject, making this collection as visually impressive as it is enlightening and fun to read.

52 Classic Interviews

Lunch with the FT

'Extraordinary' TONY BLAIR 'Riveting' - PHILIPPE SANDS 'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny' - MISHA GLENNY The real scoop isn't on the front page 'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering unique insights into high-level decision-making and political calculation, often in moments of crisis. These diaries offer snapshots of leadership in an age of upheaval...' Lionel Barber was Editor of the Financial Times for the tech boom, the global financial crisis, the rise of China, Brexit, and mainstream media's fight for survival in the age of fake news. In this unparalleled, no-holds-barred diary of life behind the headlines, he reveals the private meetings and exchanges with political leaders on the eve of referendums, the conversations with billionaire bankers facing economic meltdown, exchanges with Silicon Valley tech gurus and pleas from foreign emissaries desperate for inside knowledge, all against the backdrop of a wildly shifting media landscape. The result is a fascinating - and at times scathing - portrait of power in our modern age; who has it, what it takes and what drives the men and women with the world at their feet. Featuring close encounters with Trump, Cameron, Blair, Putin, Merkel and Mohammed Bin Salman and many more, this is a rare portrait of the people who continue to shape our world and who quite literally, make the news.

Lionel Barber, director del Financial Times durante quince años, ha vivido en primera línea algunos de los principales desafíos económicos y políticos de los últimos tiempos. El reputado periodista, a través de las anotaciones que tomó de sus encuentros con los poderosos que gobiernan el mundo, recoge en Vencedores y vencidos, traducido por primera vez al español, conversaciones privadas con políticos a las puertas de un referéndum, con banqueros billonarios que se enfrentan a una crisis económica o con gurús de la tecnología de Sillicon Valley. Algunas de las personalidades más destacadas con las que Barber ha tenido la oportunidad de entrevistarse son Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel o Donald Trump. En un momento en el que el periodismo lucha por sobrevivir a la era de los fake news, el que fuera director de la «Biblia de los negocios» durante su etapa más brillante, muestra que su condición simultánea de insider y outsider le brindó una relación de intimidad única con líderes del mundo de la política, las finanzas y los negocios, el periodismo, la diplomacia y hasta la realeza, En este diario fascinante y mordaz, Barber desvela todo lo que hay detrás de las bambalinas de los titulares, y ofrece un rico retrato de las élites globales desde su posición de observador privilegiado. Un compendio de análisis propio y diálogos que constituye una vía de acceso excepcional a una mejor comprensión del cambio de época en el que aún hoy estamos inmersos.

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