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Dillon Rediscovered: The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons

by Kevin Rafter

  

€ 20.00 

ISBN: 9781739608675

Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia.

At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern journalism, Dillon rose to prominence as a special correspondent with The Daily Telegraph of London. Dillon was, however, more than a newspaper journalist – he was a university professor, author of books on theology, and an adviser to statesmen; he reported on wars but also helped broker international peace treaties.

This is the previously untold story of a life that transported him from the slum streets of Victorian Dublin to the scrumptious salons of Tsarist Russia, from high politics in European capitals to the American oil rush in Mexico in the 1920s.

Drawing on never-before-seen letters and notebooks, this book reveals a complicated personal life including, marriages in Russia and Bulgaria, a divorce in Paris and family conflict beyond his death in Barcelona in 1933.

396 pages.

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Date of Publication: 13/03/2025

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