Now aged 75, Peter C. Newman at last tells the story of his stranger-than-fiction life. Try to keep up as we follow his many lives: as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; a Jewish kid in short pants being machine-gunned by Nazi fighter planes on the beach at Biarritz, en route to the last ship to escape from France in 1940; as a refugee on an Ontario farm; as an outsider on a scholarship at Upper Canada College; as a" Financial Post" journalist, then an author whose "Renegade in Power" made Canadian politics dramatic and disrespectfully exciting for the first time; as the man who revealed the secrets of the rulers of the Canadian business world in "The Canadian Establishment," and other huge business success stories, including "The Establishment Man," on Conrad Black; or the millionaire who turned his back on business books and tackled Canadian history ("Company of Adventurers" and other triumphs), in a career where his work has dominated the bestseller lists in politics, business, history, and current affairs.