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"(born-to-etiquette)=\n",
"# Born to Etiquette\n",
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" + Expand
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" Murdoch Family Themes
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" 1. Family Media Empire
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" - Mythologizing Keith Arthur Murdoch and Gallipoli
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" - Daily Mirror in 1960
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" - Oxford, Press baron, wielding political power
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" 2. Mind Games & Control
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" - HBO's Succession
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" - All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
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" - The whole point is that the crazy old man doesn't know that Cordelia is telling him the truth
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" - Rupert's trust dividing control equally among wife and four children
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" - Is daddy going deaf? No, he's just not listening
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" - Family retreat, therapy
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"
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" 3. The Architect of Influence
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" - 92-year-old patriarch, King Lear in every sense but one...
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" - Project Family Harmony: aggressive options to neutralize James, the troublesome beneficiary
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" - The idea was that it would incentivize them to
cooperate
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" 4. Sibling Rivalry
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" - Have you ever done anything successful on your own?
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" - Why were you too busy to say \"Happy birthday\" to your father when he turned 909?
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" - Does it strike you that, in your account, everything that goes wrong is always somebody else's fault?
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" - Airing the dirty laundry didn't come naturally to James
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" - Matthew Freud concerted leak campaign to make Liz the new favored successor
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" 5. Conservative Values
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" - James didn't share his vision for the family business; Harvard Lampoon;
Rawkus Records
; Digital Publishing \n",
" - Conservative politics across the Anglo-Saxon world
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" - Why didn't James quit? He was guided by a lesson from the Commedia Divina: Dante encounters Pope Celestine V
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" - Inferno, Limbo, Paradiso
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" - Nobody wants to hear a rich heir from a powerful family complain about his father. History has plenty of those.
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