Max Hastings
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Sir Max Hastings FRSL FRHistS |
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Max Hastings at the Financial Times 125th Anniversary Party, London, in June 2013
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Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings 28 December 1945 Lambeth, London, England |
| Residence | Hungerford, Berkshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater |
Charterhouse School University College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist, editor, historian, author |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
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| Parent(s) |
Macdonald Hastings Anne Scott-James |
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings FRSL FRHistS (/ˈheɪstɪŋz/; born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. His parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and war correspondent and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.
Hastings was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford, which he left after a year. Whilst most of his immediate family were educated at Stonyhurst College, it was his cousin Sir Stephen Hastings who became his abiding ally.
He then moved to the United States, spending a year (1967–68) as a Fellow of the World Press Institute, following which he published his first book, America, 1968: The Fire This Time, an account of the US in its tumultuous election year. He became a foreign correspondent and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV's Twenty-Four Hours current affairs programme and for the Evening Standard in London. Hastings was the first journalist to enter Port Stanley during the 1982 Falklands War. After ten years as editor and then editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, he returned to the Evening Standard as editor in 1996 until his retirement in 2002. He received a knighthood in 2002. He was elected a member of the political dining society known as The Other Club in 1993.
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