Extraordinary Canadians Lord Beaverbrook
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Press baron, entrepreneur, art collector, and wartime minister in Churchill's cabinet, Max Aitken was a colonial Canadian extraordinaire. Rising from a hardscrabble childhood in New Brunswick, he became a millionaire at age 25, earned the title of Lord Beaverbrook at 38, and by age 40 was the most influential newspaperman in the world. Fiercely loyal to the British Empire, he was nonetheless patronized by London's upper class, whose country he worked tirelessly to protect during World War II. David Adams Richards, one of Canada's preeminent novelists, celebrates Beaverbrook's heroic achievements in this perceptive interpretive biography.
Customer Reviews
A must read.
Another Canadian we should study in film, and this book would provide a good base for that. It’s written by someone who grew up in the same New Brunswick town, albeit of a later generation, and he is therefore able to impart not just a run through of Beaverbrook’s admirable, and not-so-admirable, life, but also his legacy in the province’s culture. With this book Canadians can learn a great deal about how Canada was viewed by Britain during its last decades as a colonial power. And to learn, or vividly relearn, that this man—who was fiercely independent and a brilliant wielder of money and power—really helped stick it to fascism.