[7] He was a producer on Panorama from 1975 until 1987. Maxwell allowed this action to lapse in 1990 but only after Bower and Aurum had submitted a detailed defence of the book. The book was serialised for 5 days in The Times and was the basis of a BBC TV documentary. [10], In 1987, Robert Maxwell responded to the publication of two unauthorised biographies of himself with numerous lawsuits, threats of legal action against individual booksellers, and the rapid publication of an authorised biography by Joe Haines, political editor of the Mirror Group which Maxwell owned. In 2019, a biography of Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Dangerous Hero, was published. Didn't quite work out that way, and so, his hobby of acting seemed to be the next course of action. In 2003, Bower won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football, an investigation into corruption in English football. [37][38][39], In October 2020, Bower is set to publish the biography Boris Johnson: The Gambler. [27] The title of the book refers to Cowell's relationship with fellow entertainment impresario Simon Fuller. [40], The London Gazette, 7 June 1957, Issue: 41095, Page: 3462, Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football, Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge, Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell, Dangerous Hero: Corbyn's Ruthless Plot for Power, "Tom Bower: the biographer as big-game hunter", https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/41095/page/3462, "Tom Bower's Diary: My Marxist past, abuse from Tariq Ali, a warning for Meghan and the demise of Today", "Tom Bower: biographer with a taste for the secrets of the powerful", "The Grasshopper obituary of Robert Maxwell", "Must the defamation defence of 'fair comment' be 'fair, "Richard's brand – Branson hype has hidden his record of failures", "Tom Bower book damaged Richard Desmond's 'super-tough' reputation, court hears", "Richard Desmond loses libel case against Tom Bower", "The Saturday interview: Bernie Ecclestone", "Simon Cowell: I spent last week hiding under a pillow in my bedroom after book revelations", "Simon Cowell 'tried to restrict biographer's access, "Faber announces major biography of Tony Blair by Tom Bower for Spring publication", "Opinion: Here's why the 'devastating' expose on Corbyn might actually work in his favour", "Dangerous Hero review - Corbyn hatchet job turns out to be blunt instrument", "Jeremy Corbyn and the truth about Tom Bower's book", "Dangerous Hero review – Corbyn hatchet job turns out to be blunt instrument", "The Latest Hatchet Job on Corbyn Is Garbage", "HarperCollins to remove false comments from Tom Bower's Corbyn biography", "Pro-Palestine group wins legal battle against MailOnline over false anti-Semitism claim", "Palestinian Return Centre secures apologies and damages from Mail on Sunday over Tom Bower libel | Carter-Ruck", "Mail on Sunday apologises to UK-based Palestinian centre over antisemitic slur", "Tom Bower lifts the lids on the real Boris Johnson in unauthorised biography 'The Gambler, William Hill Sports Book of the Year winner, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Bower&oldid=983655791, Articles with short description added by PearBOT 5, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 15 October 2020, at 13:45.
Stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eddie Redmayne share their 5 reasons not to miss The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix. [26] Over lunch Ecclestone told Bower "You write what you like, provided it's more or less the truth, because I'm no angel". [24][25] An unauthorised biography by Bower of Richard Desmond, titled Rough Trader, was written and printed in 2006, but still awaits publication. Tom Bowers (born c. 1936) is a British-born Seychellois sculptor and photographer. [12], Maxwell also tried to sue Bower in the English courts over an article published in America, by the magazine The New Republic, on the basis that it had 136 British subscribers. They live in London.[1]. His parents were Jewish refugees who fled Prague after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 and arrived in London later that same year. Tom Bower grew up in Denver, Colorado, and thought he would have a career as an athlete, having played varsity baseball, basketball, golf, ran track, and just assumed a professional career would follow. [13] Bower also believes that Maxwell tried to break into his house and also went through his phone records and bank statements. Serialised at length in the Mail on Sunday, it was a number 2 Sunday Times bestseller.
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